Suspected Russian Spy Ship Loitering Near French Submarine Trials

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 Suspected Russian Spy Ship Loitering Near French Submarine Trials

H I Sutton 06 May 2020
 

The presence of the Russian ship, just east of Cherbourg where the submarine is currently based, was observed by Open Source analysts. Yet the connection to the submarine tests was only made by a local print newspaper, La Manche Libre who published an article in its printed edition on May 2.

The Russian ship did not go unnoticed to the Navy however. Akademik Pashin was monitored by French and then British warships. The Royal Navy reported on April 30 that the Offshore patrol Vessel HMS Mersey had shadowed the ship, along with the Steregushchiy-class corvette RFS Boiky.

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2020/05/suspected-russian-spy-ship-loitering-near-french-submarine-trials/

[rangerrebew]

The carrier I was on once went through a small group of "trawlers" gathered off San Francisco at 43 knots which gave the "fishermen" a good idea of what we could do and provided them with an awesome ride.  We had come out of a yard period and were on a shake down and the Captain told us the ship had been tuned up so well we were then getting 13 1/2 feet a gallon of fuel.