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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Feth-i Bülend			Thames Iron Wks, Blackwall, UK	5/1868	1869	1870	hulk 1910

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	2762
Displacement full, t
Length, m	72.0 pp
Breadth, m	12.0
Draught, m	5.51 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 HC, 6 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	3250
Max speed, kts	13
Fuel, t	coal 300
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armour, mm	iron; belt: 229 - 152, ends: 76, casemates: 229 - 152
Armament	4 x 1 - 229/14 Armstrong 12.5-ton MLR
Complement	169

Standard scale images

Project history

Small, iron-hulled casemate ironclads resembling the Avnillah class except that the casemates were not cut away between the guns, so that the forward guns could only fire on forward bearings and the aft guns on aft bearings. They were very high out of the water. Ship was reconstructed by Ansaldo betweeo 1903 and 1907.

Ship protection: The complete wl belt extended for 1.2m below to 0.6m above lwl, and was 229mm thick above and 152mm thick below lwl. The casemates were 229mm thick below the port sills and 152mm thick above.

Modernizations

1882: + 1 x 1 - 178/16 Armstrong 6.5-ton MLR, 2 x 1 - 87/22 RK L/24 C/82

1890: - 1 x 1 - 178/16; + 2 x 1 - 57/37 SK L/40 C/99, 2 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 1 x 1 - 25/42 Nordenfelt

(1903-1907, Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy), re-boilered with 2 cylindrical water-tube boilers, CT had 152mm sides; new armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 149/37 SK L/40 C/06, 6 x 1 - 75/37 SK L/40, 6 x 1 - 57/37 SK L/40 C/99

Naval service

Feth-i Bülend was hulked in 1910 and sunk 31.10.1913 by Greek torpedo boat NF11 at Selanik.