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OTTOMAN / TURKISH NAVY (OTTOMAN EMPIRE / TURKEY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

ANTALYA torpedo boats (1906-1907)

Kütahya 1906

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Antalya     Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente, Italy 4/1904 1904 12/1906 scuttled 5.11.1911
Urfa     Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente, Italy 4/1904 1904 12/1906 foundered 11.12.1908
Ankara     Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente, Italy 4/1904 1904 12/1906 sunk 24.2.1912
Tokad     Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente, Italy 4/1904 1904 12/1906 scuttled 5.11.1911
Draç     Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente, Italy 4/1904 1904 1/1907 decommissioned 1924, barge 1926
Kütahya     Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente, Italy 4/1904 1904 1/1907 sunk 14.9.1916
Musul     Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente, Italy 4/1904 1904 1/1907 decommissioned 1929, BU 1936
  

Displacement normal, t

165

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

51.0

Breadth, m

5.70

Draught, m

1.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 water-tube boilers

Power, h. p.

2700

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

coal 60

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 2 x 1 - 450 TT (4)

Complement

30

Project history: Usual torpedo boats of Ansaldo / Armstrong design.

Modernizations: 1915, Draç, Kütahya: - 1 x 1 - 450 TT; + 1 x 1 - 57/42 SK L/45 C/99

1915, Musul: + 1 x 1 - 47/42 SK L/45 C/99

1919, Draç: - 1 x 1 - 57/42, 1 x 1 - 450 TT

Naval service: Antalia and Tokad were scuttled 5.11.1911 by crews at Preveze, in 1912 they were salvaged by Greeks and commissioned by them as Nikopolis and Totoi. Ankara was sunk by Italian ships at Beirut 24.2.1912. Urfa foundered 11.12.1908 during a storm off Selanik. Kütahya was lost 14.9.1916 in Black sea N of Karaburnu on Russian mine, survived ships were broken up only in 1935-1936.

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