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OTTOMAN / TURKISH NAVY (OTTOMAN EMPIRE / TURKEY)

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ZUHAF sloops (1896)

Kilid Bahir 1896

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Zuhaf     Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul 1892 31.8.1894 10/1896 survey vessel 1917
Kilid Bahir     Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul 1892 31.8.1894 10/1896 stricken 1909
  

Displacement normal, t

643

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

57.9 pp

Breadth, m

7.32

Draught, m

3.51 max

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers

Power, h. p.

640

Max speed, kts

14

Fuel, t

coal 80

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

1 x 1 - 120/22 RK L/25 C/78, 4 x 1 - 37/37 SK L/40 C/91

Complement

82

Project history: Steel-hulled and barque-rigged, these two vessels reused machinery and equipment from earlier vessels. Designed armament consisted of 2 120mm/22 Krupp BLs, 4 37mm Krupp QFs and 2 450mm TTs.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Zuhaf was laid up and disarmed in 1916, converted to survey vessel in 1917 and stricken in 1932.

 

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