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Thursday, November 03, 2011

Bulgarian Navy Discards Submarine Force

Slava submarineThe Bulgarian Navy has formally shut down its submarine unit at a ceremony in the main naval base in the Black Sea city of Varna.

At a "formal" event on Tuesday, the Bulgarian Navy officially retired the last operational Bulgarian submarine "Slava" (i.e. "Glory").

The ceremony was attended by Read Admiral Plamen Manushev, Commander-in-Chief of the Bulgarian Navy, navy servicemen, and veterans, reported BGNES.

The commander of the submarine division of the Bulgarian Navy Capt. Kamen Kukurov delivered the flag of the Slava submarine to the Varna Museum of Military History.

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