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SAKARYA submarine (1931)

Sakarya 1931

Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Sakarya     CNT, Monfalcone, Italy 1/1930 5.2.1931 10/1931 stricken 1949

 

Displacement standard, t

 

Displacement normal, t

815 / 1145

Length, m

61.6

Breadth, m

6.68

Draught, m

4.30

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 MAN diesels / 2 electric motors

Power, h. p.

1500 / 1100

Max speed, kts

16.9 / 9.5

Fuel, t

diesel oil

Endurance, nm(kts) 4000(10) / 74(4)

Armament

1 x 1 - 100/43 OTO 1927, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 12)

Electronic equipment presumably hydrophone

Complement

41

Diving depth operational, m 100

Project history: Ordered under the 1929 programme in Italy together with larger submarine Dumlupinar. Medium submarine, designed by A. Bernardis on basis of Italian submarine Argonauta from which differed in slightly increased dimensions caused by placing of more powerful engines for achievement of higher surfaced and submerged speeds. Single-hulled, with side blisters.
   Sakarya and Dumlupinar departured from Monfalcone with mixed Italian-Turkish crews, arrived to Istanbul 5.11.1931 and commissioned next day.

Modernizations: mid-1940s: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV.

Naval service: No significant events.

Sakarya 1936

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