DEMİRHİSAR destroyers (1942, 1942/1945)

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Sultanhissar 1946

Ships

Name	No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Muavenet (ex-Inconstant, ex-Muavenet)	D340	Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK	5/1939	24.2.1941	1/1942 // 3.1946	stricken 1960
Demirhisar	D342	Denny, Dumbarton, UK	1939	1941	1942	stricken 1960
Sultanhisar	D343	Denny, Dumbarton, UK	3/1939	17.12.1940	1942	stricken 1960
Gayret		Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK	5/1939	15.2.1940	3/1942 // ---	commissioned by United Kingdom (Ithuriel)

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1370
Displacement full, t	2080
Length, m	95.1 pp 98.5 oa
Breadth, m	10.2
Draught, m	3.96
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers
Power, h. p.	34000
Max speed, kts	35.5
Fuel, t	oil 443
Endurance, nm(kts)	5500(15)
Armament	as designed: 4 x 1 - 120/45 QF Mk IX, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20 DC) Demirhisar, Sultanhisar: 4 x 1 - 120/45 QF Mk IX, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20) Muavenet: 4 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk XVIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20)
Electronic equipment	Demirhisar, Sultanhisar: type 271, type 286M/P radars, type 124 sonar Muavenet: type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar
Complement	145

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Sultanhissar 1946

Project history

In the late 1938 Turkey ordered in the Great Britain 4 destroyers similar to British I class, but with quadruple TT banks instead of quintuple and simplified fire control system "director-rangefinder". After WWII beginning British Government bought 2 destroyers built by Vickers-Armstrong, and in 1942 they were commissioned by Royal Navy as Inconstant (Muavenet) and Ithuriel (Gayret). Inconstant in 1945 was returned to Turkey under former name. Ithuriel was hard damaged by German aircraft 28.11.1942 and was never repaired, in 1945 she was broken up; instead of her Turkey in 1946 received destroyer Oribi. The Denni-built ships Demirhissar and Sultanhissar in 1942 were transferred to Turkey, however for period of transition they nominally joined Royal Navy structure and were complemented by British crews. Designed armament corresponded to British standards: 4 120mm/45 Mk lX** guns, 2 quadruple 12.7mm AA MGs, but by the moment of transfer AA armament was changed.

Modernizations

early 1950s, all: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 6 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

Naval service

No significant events.