Alanya 1960
Name | No | Yard No | Builder | Laid down | Launched | Comp | Fate |
Ayvalık (ex-Gawler) | Broken Hill, Whyalla, Australia | 1.1941 | 4.10.1941 | 8.1942 // 8.1946 | discarded 1963 | ||
Antalya (ex-Geraldton), 1963- Ayvalık | M500 | Poole & Steel, Sydney, Australia | 3.1941 | 16.8.1941 | 4.1942 // 8.1946 | auxiliary 1965 | |
Alanya (ex-Broome) | M501 | Evans Deakin, Brisbane, Australia | 5.1941 | 6.10.1941 | 7.1942 // 8.1946 | auxiliary 1965 | |
Amasra (ex-Pirie) | M502 | Broken Hill, Whyalla, Australia | 5.1941 | 3.12.1941 | 10.1942 // 8.1946 | auxiliary 1965 | |
Hamit Nacı (ex-Launceston) | M503 | Evans Deakin, Brisbane, Australia | 12.1940 | 30.6.1941 | 4.1942 // 8.1946 | discarded 1965 |
Displacement standard, t |
650 |
Displacement full, t |
790 |
Length, m |
56.7 |
Breadth, m |
9.50 |
Draught, m |
3.00 deep load |
No of shafts |
2 |
Machinery |
2 VTE, 2 Admiralty 3-drum boilers |
Power, h. p. |
1550 - 2000 |
Max speed, kts |
15 - 16 |
Fuel, t |
oil 124 - 153 |
Endurance, nm(kts) | |
Armament |
1 x 1 - 102/45 Mk XX, 1 x 1 - 40/60 Mk III, 2 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 4 DCT, 2 DCR (82), mechanical minesweeping gear |
Electronic equipment | type 271, SC radars, type 128 sonar |
Complement |
80 - 90 |
Project history: Former Australian Bathurst class fleet minesweepers, transferred to Turkey. Rated as minesweepers but used mainly as escorts.
Modernizations: None.
Naval service: No significant events.
Ayvalık 1968
© Ivan Gogin, 2015