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Kocatepe 1931

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Kocatepe			Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy	1.1930	7.2.1931	10.1931	stricken 2.1954
Adatepe			Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy	1.1930	19.3.1931	10.1931	stricken 2.1954

Technical data

Displacement standard, t	1250
Displacement full, t	1650
Length, m	98.0 pp 100.2 oa
Breadth, m	9.37
Draught, m	2.90
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers
Power, h. p.	40000
Max speed, kts	36
Fuel, t	oil 360
Endurance, nm(kts)	3500(15)
Armament	4 x 1 - 120/50 Ansaldo 1926, 3 x 1 - 40/39 Vickers-Terni 1917, 2 x 3 - 533 TT
Complement	149

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Project history

Ordered under the 1929 programme. Design was developed by experts of Ansaldo on basis of Italian destroyer Folgore, from which Turkish ships differed, first of all by guns arrangement: in single mounts, as on British and French ships of given type. It demanded length increase, breadth was thus moderated for providing of higher speed. Together with highly arranged armament, it has finished stability, to critical level. Two-funneled outline profile became one more significant difference doing Turkish destroyers a little similar to prototype.    On trials ships made up to 41kts at 52000hp. 533mm torpedo calibre was used in Turkey for the first time.

Modernizations

1942, both: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service

Since 1947 till exception from fleet list they were used for training.