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TURKISH NAVY (TURKEY)

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MUAVENET destroyer (1944/1971)

Muavenet 1975

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Muavenet (ex-Gwin) DM357   Bethlehem, San Pedro, USA 31.10.1943 9.4.1944 30.9.1944 // 22.10.1971 damaged 2.10.1992, stricken late 1993

 

Displacement standard, t

2250

Displacement full, t

3375

Length, m

112.5 wl 114.8 oa

Breadth, m

12.5

Draught, m

4.39 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

34

Fuel, t

oil 494

Endurance, nm(kts) 3300 (20)

Armament

3 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 12, 3 x 4 - 40/60 Mk 2, 2 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 2 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk 11 ASWRL, 1 DCR, 80 mines

Electronic equipment

nav., SPS-10, SPS-6, Mk 25 radars, QHB sonar, WLR-1 ECM suite, 4x RBOC decoy RL
Complement

336

Project history: Former USN Robert H. Smith class destroyer-minelayer, transferred to Turkey under MDAP.

Modernizations: 1983: - 1 x 4 - 40/60, SPS-6 radar; + 1 x 2 - 76/50 Mk 33, SPS-40, SPG-34 radars

Naval service: Muavenet 2.10.1992 on NATO exercises was severely damaged by a Sea Sparrow missile accidentally fired from US aircraft carrier Saratoga. Repair was considered too expensive, and ship was stricken late 1993.

Muavenet 1980

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