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Birinci İnönü 1936

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Birinci İnönü			Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam, Netherlands	1/1926	29.1.1927	6/1928	stricken 1948
İkinci İnönü			Wilton-Fijenoord, Schiedam, Netherlands	1/1926	12.3.1927	6/1928	stricken 1948

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	519 / 674
Length, m	58.7
Breadth, m	5.75
Draught, m	3.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 MAN diesels / 2 electric motors
Power, h. p.	1100 / 700
Max speed, kts	13.5 / 8.5
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	7500(10) / 80(5)
Armament	1 x 1 - 75/52 Krupp No.2, 6 - 450 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 6)
Complement	44
Diving depth operational, m	50

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Project history

Coastal submarines ordered in the Netherlands in 1925. First ships, built for Turkish Navy after the First World War. Project Pu46 was developed by IvS on a basis of German submarine of UB III type. On trials they shown up to 14.3/9.5kts. Names were originally written as Birindji-In-Uni and Ikindji-In-Uni. Both submarines departured from Rotterdam under Turkish flag and arrived to Istanbul 9.6.1928.

Modernizations

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

Naval service

No significant events.