Peyk-i Şevket-class cruiser
Torpedo cruiser class of the Ottoman Navy / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Peyk-i Şevket class was a pair of torpedo cruisers built for the Ottoman Navy by the German shipyard Germaniawerft in 1906–1907. The class comprised two ships: Peyk-i Şevket and Berk-i Satvet. They were ordered as part of a program to modernize the Ottoman fleet at the turn of the century. The ships were small vessels, at only 775 metric tons (763 long tons; 854 short tons); they were nevertheless heavily armed for their size, with three torpedo tubes and a pair of 105 mm (4.1 in) guns along with several smaller weapons.
One of the two Peyk-i Şevket-class cruisers in their original configuration | |
Class overview | |
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Built | 1906–1907 |
In commission | 1907–1944 |
Completed | 2 |
Scrapped | 2 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Torpedo cruiser |
Displacement | 775 long tons (787 t) |
Length | 80.1 m (262 ft 10 in) |
Beam | 8.4 m (27 ft 7 in) |
Draft | 4.6 m (15 ft 1 in) |
Installed power |
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Propulsion | |
Speed | 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph) |
Range | 3,240 nmi (6,000 km; 3,730 mi) |
Complement | 105 |
Armament |
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Neither ship saw action during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912, as Peyk-i Şevket had been interned in Suez and Berk-i Satvet spent the war confined to the Sea of Marmara with the main Ottoman fleet. Both ships took a more active role in the Balkan Wars, frequently providing gunfire to support to Ottoman troops in East Thrace. During World War I, both ships served in the Black Sea, where they conducted patrols, escorted convoys, and attacked Russian ports. In January 1915, Berk-i Satvet was mined off the Bosporus, and seven months later, Peyk-i Şevket was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS E11 in the Sea of Marmara. Both ships were repaired and returned to service by 1918.
After the end of the war, both ships were kept in service with the new Turkish Navy, with lengthy overhauls in the mid-1920s. Both ships were extensively modernized in the late 1930s, and they remained in service to 1944, when they were finally decommissioned. Both vessels were ultimately broken up in the early 1950s.