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OTTOMAN / TURKISH NAVY (OTTOMAN EMPIRE / TURKEY)

OTHER FIGHTING SHIPS

AKKA gunboats (1859-1860)

very similar Ziver-i Derya 1875

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Akka     White, Cowes, UK 1859 1859 12/1859 stricken 1901
Şevket Nüma     Money Wigram, Blackwall, UK 1859 1859 3/1860 TS 1904, stricken 1909, re-commissioned 4.1915, stricken 10.1918
Varna, 1879- Necmifeşan     Money Wigram, Blackwall, UK 1858 1859 3/1860 hulk 1902
Sünne     Money Wigram, Blackwall, UK 1858 1859 8/1859 sunk 9.10.1877
  

Displacement normal, t

120

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

35.4

Breadth, m

6.00

Draught, m

2.70

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 HSA, 1 rectangular boiler

Power, h. p.

225

Max speed, kts

8

Fuel, t

coal 25

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

4 x 1 - 151/12 24pdr SBML

Complement

70

Project history: Wooden gunboats. Şevket Nüma rebuilt in 1898 with new steel hull and new machinery.

Modernizations: 1876, all: - 4 x 1 - 151/12; + 4 x 1 - 155/14 26pdr SBML, 1 x 1 - 125/14 16pdr SBML

1885, Akka: was armed with 3 x 1 - 75/22 RK L/24 C/83, 1 x 1 - 37/37 SK L/40 C/85

1898, Şevket Nüma: new steel hull (120t), new machinery (1 VTE,1  double-ended cylindrical boilers, 400hp, 10kts), complement was 45; new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 75/37 SK L/40 C/91, 1 x 1 - 37/37 SK L/40 C/91

1915, Şevket Nüma: was armed with 1 x 1 - 57/42 SK L/45 C/99, 2 x 1 - 47/42 SK L/45 C/99

Naval service: Sünne was stricken by Russian mine 9.10.1877 in the mouth of the Danube.

© Ivan Gogin, 2014