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TURKISH NAVY (TURKEY)

MINE WARFARE SHIPS AND CRAFT

ALANYA patrols / minesweepers (1942/1946)

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

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