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Coast Defence Ships
Cruisers, 2nd class
Cruisers, 3rd class
Gunboats, &e. , .
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Dec. 189S ing
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Torpedo craft, 1st class.
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The table which follows is of the Turkish armourclad fleet. Abbreviations
:—a.g.b. armoured gunboat; bar., barbette; C.6., central battery; t.,
turret; Q.F., quick-firing. In the column of armaments, light and machine
guns are not given.
Description |
a. g. b. Feth-eUIslam
a. g. b. Memdouiyeh
bar. Aziziyeh
bar.
bar.
bar.
c. b.
c. b.
bar.
e. b.
c. b.
c. b.
t.
c. b.
c. b.
c. b.
c. b.
c.b.
Name
Mahmoudiyeh
Osmaniyeh .
Orkaniyeh .
Mesoudiyeh
Hamidiyeh .
Abdul Kader .1
(Unfinished) ]
Aasar-i-SheJket .
Nedjim-i-Shej ket.i
As$ar-i-Tevfik
Hufzi-i-Bahjnan .
Avni-lllah .
Idjlaliyeh .
Feth-i-Boulend .
Mouin-i-Zafter .
Moukadem-i-Huir
Launched !
1864
1864
181)4
1864
1864
1865
1874
1SS5
1S68
1868
1868
1868
186!)
1S70
1870
I860
1872
Displacement
330
330
6,400
6,400
6,400
6,400
8,990
6,700
8,000
2,050
2,050
4,600
2,500
2,310
2,240
2,720
2,330
2,080
Extreme
Armouring,
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0
14
6
IS
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6
6
0
6
!)
Armament.
2 7in. (Armstrong) .
Ditto . . . .
211in.; 8 5'9in. ; 6 SOiii
(Krupp) . . . .
Ditto
Ditto
12 lOin. (18-ton, Arm.,
mnz ) ; 3 5'9in (Krupp).
10 10'2in.; 2 6-Oin. (Krupp)
4 llin.; 6 5'Oin. (Krupp),
10Q.F
1 Oin.; 4 7in. (Armstrong)
Ditto
8 9-4in.; 2 8-2in. (Krupp) .
2 9m.; 2 7in.(Arm.); l,5in
(Krupp).
4 Oin. (Armstrong)
2 9in. ; 2 Tin. (Arm.); 1
5'Jin. (K.)
4 Oin. (Armstrong)
4 Oin. (Ann.); 1 4'7in.
(Krupp) . . . .
Ditto
Torpedo
Ejectors
The old sister battleships, now coast-defence vessels, Aziziyeh,
Mahmoudiyeh, Orkaniyeh, and Osmaniyeh (6,400 tons), are being, or have
been, transformed by having barbette turrets placed at each end of their
batteries for the heavy Krupp guns (the hope being to fit them for something
more than local defence). An armourclad of 6,700 tons, the Hamidiyeh, was
launched at Constantinople in 1885, and is said, after long delays, to have
made her trials, but it is believed that not all her guns are even now mounted.
This vessel, the Mesoudiyeh, and the unfinished armoured barbette cruiser
Abdul Kader, are the largest ships in the Turkish navy. The Mesoudiyeh
is 332 feet long, with extreme beam of 59 feet. She is constructed on the
central battery principle, sister to our Superb. She was sent to Genoa for
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2
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Indicated
horse-power
200
290
3,740
3,740
3,740
3,740
7,800
0,800
11,500
1,750
1,900
3,560
200
nominal
2,200
1,800
4,200
2,200
3,000
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