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TORPEDO SHIPS

DEMİRHİSAR torpedo boats (1907)

Demirhisar 1914

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Demirhisar     Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France 1906 1907 1907 wrecked 16.4.1915
Sultanhisar     Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France 1906 1907 1907 decommissioned 1928, BU 1935
Sivrihisar     Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France 1906 1907 1907 decommissioned 1928, BU 1935
Hamidabad     Schneider, Chalons-sur-Saône, France 1906 1907 1907 sunk 31.10.1917
  

Displacement normal, t

97

Displacement full, t

101

Length, m

38.0 pp 40.2 oa

Breadth, m

4.40

Draught, m

1.90

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VTE, 2 Du Temple boilers

Power, h. p.

2200

Max speed, kts

26

Fuel, t

coal 11

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 1 x 2 - 450 TT (5)

Complement

23

Project history: Sister-ships of French 38m torpedo boats and Bulgarian Druzki class. To WWI beginning she was worn strongly out and could made no more than 16kts.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: Demirhissar 16.4.1915 was cought by British destroyers Jed, Kennet and Wear, and she was compelled to run ashore of island Chios. Hamidabad 30.10.1917 was sunk at port Igneada (on border with Bulgaria) as result of joint attack of Russian seaplanes and destroyers Bystry and Pylkiy.

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