Tugboats of Port Fleet to tow three naval ships under St. Petersburg bridges at night of July 23-24
At night of July 23-24, tugboats of Port Fleet CJSC will tow three naval ships along the Neva river under St. Petersburg bridges. As IAA PortNews was told at the company, small gunship Makhachkala, corvette Boykiy and diesel-electric submarine Saint-Petersburg will be placed in front of the Admiralty and the Bronze Horseman for participation in festive activities dedicated to the Navy Day.
6 tugboats are deployed for towing: Yevgeniy Kocheshkov, Neptun, Leonid Bochkov, Petergof, Pavlovsk and Uran.
On July 23, the military ships will arrive from Kronshtadt to embankments of Saint-Petersburg (English embankment and Lieutenant Shmidt embankment) escorted by the tugboats of RF Navy. Further assistance along the Neva towards the city center will be carried out by tugboats of Port Fleet CJSC when the bridges are raised in Saint-Petersburg.
Backward towing is scheduled for the night of July 29-30, upon completion of the holiday celebrations. RF Navy Day is traditionally celebrated on the last Sunday of July. This year it falls on July 28.
