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TURKISH NAVY (TURKEY)

TORPEDO SHIPS

İSTANBUL destroyers (1942-1943/1967-1969)

İstanbul 1968

İzmit 1975

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
İstanbul (ex-Clarence K. Bronson) D340   Federal, Kearny, USA 12.1942 18.4.1943 6/1943 // 14.1.1967 stricken 1987
İzmir (ex-Van Valkenburgh) D341   Gulf SB, Chickasaw, USA 11/1942 19.12.1943 8/1944 // 28.2.1967 stricken 1987
İzmit (ex-Cogswell) D342   Bath Iron Wks, USA 2.1943 5.6.1943 8/1943 // 1.10.1969 stricken 1980
İskenderun (ex-Boyd) D343   Bethlehem, San Pedro, USA 4.1942 29.10.1942 5/1943 // 1.10.1969 stricken 1981
İçel (ex-Preston) D344   Bethlehem, San Pedro, USA 6/1943 12.12.1943 3/1944 // 15.11.1969 stricken 1981

 

Displacement standard, t

2276

Displacement full, t

3005

Length, m

112.5 wl 114.7 oa

Breadth, m

12.1

Draught, m

4.19 full load

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers

Power, h. p.

60000

Max speed, kts

38

Fuel, t

oil 492

Endurance, nm(kts) 6500 (15)

Armament

4 x 1 - 127/38 Mk 30, 3 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, 1 x 5 - 533 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 1 DCR (9)

Electronic equipment

SPS-6, SPS-10, Mk 25, 2x Mk 34 radars, SQS-29 sonar, BLR-1 ECM suite

Complement

273

Project history: Former USN Fletcher class destroyers, transferred to Turkey under MDAP.

Modernizations: late 1970s: - 1 x 5 - 533 TT; + 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, nav. radar, 4x decoy RL

Naval service: No significant events.

İçel 1980

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