Satellite
images backed with some footages indicate that an Iranian Navy ship has fallen
on its port side in a dry dock.
The vessel
known as Talaiyeh was being constructed in the Port of Bandar Abbas, as
continuation of Iranian made Jamaran class corvettes. The 1500 ton displacement
Jamaran’s design is actually based on British Alvand class, which was delivered
to Iranian Navy during Shah regime.
At first Talaiyeh
would carry the same role with her predecessors, then it was decided to convert
the ship to carry out intelligence duties.
The latest
of the class, Dena, was delivered to Iranian Navy in June 2021.
Iranian
Navy had a series of unfortunate events.
One of the
other ships in this class, the ill-fated Damawand was grounded and sank in
Caspian Sea in 2018.
In June
2021, the largest warship in the Iranian Navy caught fire and sank in the Gulf
of Oman, under unclear circumstances.
Another
naval disaster for Iranian Navy is the Konarak incident. Iranian Navy ship
Konarak, an original Dutch design support ship, was struck by a missile fired
from the Iranian corvette Jamaran in a friendly fire incident during training
on May 2020.
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