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NUR-Ü BAHİR gunboat (1898/1906)

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Nur-ü Bahir (ex-Siri-ül Türk)     McLaren & Wilson, Genoa, Italy 1898 1898 1898 // 1906 stricken 1913
  

Displacement normal, t

450

Displacement full, t

 

Length, m

52.0 pp

Breadth, m

7.80

Draught, m

4.40

No of shafts

1

Machinery

1 VC, 1 cylindrical boiler

Power, h. p.

300

Max speed, kts

12

Fuel, t

coal

Endurance, nm(kts)  

Armament

2 x 1 - 75/37 SK L/40 C/91

Complement

 

Project history: Gunboat ordered by Sultan of Morocco as Siri-ül Türk, sold to Osman Government during building and renamed Nur-ül Bahir in Decmber 1898.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service: No significant events.

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