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TORPEDO SHIPS

BERK EFŞAN torpedo boats (1894)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Berk Efşan     Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany // Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul 1891 1892 1894 decommissioned 1924, stricken 1928
Tayyar     Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany // Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul 1891 1892 1894 decommissioned 1909, BU 1921
  

Displacement normal, t

230

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

59.9

Breadth, m

6.60

Draught, m

2.40

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 VTE, 2 locomotive boilers

Power, h. p.

3500

Max speed, kts

21

Fuel, t

coal 75

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

6 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 2 - 428 TT (bow, 4)

Complement

50

Project history: Built in Germany, then assembled from ready sections in Istanbul. Ordered in 1886, but was completed only in 1894. Assemblage has been fulfilled poor, and torpedo boat quickly lost the battle value.

Modernizations: 1912, Berk Efşan: - 2 x 5 - 37/27

1915, Berk Efşan: - 4 x 5 - 37/27; + 2 x 1 - 47/42 SK L/45 C/99, 2 x 1 - 47/27 SK L/30 C/91

Naval service: No significant events.

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