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ASAR-İ TEVFİK barbette battery ironclad (1870)

Asar-i Tevfik 1891

Asar-i Tevfik 1906

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Asar-i Tevfik (ex-İbrahimiye)     F C de la Méditerranée, La Seyne, France 1867 1868 1870 wrecked 11.2.1913
  

Displacement normal, t

 4687

Displacement full, t

  

Length, m

 83.0 pp

Breadth, m

 16.0

Draught, m

 6.50

No of shafts

 1

Machinery

 1 HC, 6 rectangular boilers

Power, h. p.

 3560

Max speed, kts

 13

Fuel, t

 coal 400
Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armour, mm

 iron; belt: 203, ends: 76, battery: 152, barbettes: 127

Armament

 8 x 1 - 229/14 Armstrong 12.5-ton MLR

Complement

 320
Project history: Completed in 1870, this iron-hulled vessel had a partial double bottom, a ram bow and a single funnel, and was barque-rigged. She was a reduced version of the French Trident, and had 6 229mm 12.5t Armstrong ML in the battery amidships with two more in single barbettes set side by side on the upper deck above them. The shrouds were fixed inboard to allow the barbette guns to fire directly ahead and astern. Originally she was ordered by Egyptian Government as İbrahimiye.

    She was sent to Ansaldo at Genoa to be rebuilt in 1899. However, no work was carried out and she was finally modernized at Kiel by Krupp in 1903-06. She was converted into a central battery ship. The ends were cut down and she was rearmed with 3 149mm/40 QF, one forward and one each side amidships, 7 120mm/40 QF, six in the battery and one aft and smaller guns. She retained her original armour but was fitted with a 76mm protective deck, new engines and Niclausse cyl boilers. She had a 152mm CT, one funnel set well forward and a military mast amidships.

Ship protection:  The complete wl belt extended 1.9m below and 1.4m above lwl.

Modernizations: 1891: - 2 x 1 - 229/14 (in barbettes); + 2 x 1 - 209/32 RK L/35 C/86, 2 x 1 - 87/22 RK L/24 C/82, 2 x 1 - 57/37 SK L/40 C/91, 2 x 1 - 25/42 Nordenfelt(1903-1906, Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany): machinery was replaced by 1 VTE and 6 Niclausse boilers, 15kts; protection also included 76mm steel main deck and CT with 152mm sides; new armament consisted of 3 x 1 - 149/37 SK L/40 C/06, 7 x 1 - 120/37 SK L/40 C/97, 6 x 1 - 57/37 SK L/40, 2 x 1 - 37/37 SK L/40 C/99

Naval service: Asar-i Tevfik hit a rock off Tcherness in the Black Sea in 11.2.1913 and was further damaged by Bulgarian field guns and rough seas, eventually becoming a constructive total loss.

Asar-i Tevfik 1870

Asar-i Tevfik 1910

 

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