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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Mukaddeme-i Hayir			Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul	1870	28.10.1872	1874	training hulk 1911

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, 4 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	3000
Max speed, kts	12
Fuel, t	coal 270
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. Mukaddeme-i Hayir become the first large warship built in Turkey.

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: + 2 x 1 - 87/22 RK L/24 C/82

1890: + 2 x 1 - 57/37 SK L/40 C/91, 2 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 2 x 1 - 25/42 Nordenfelt

Naval service

Ship suffered of very poor quality of construction, her guns and boilers were landed in 1898. In 1911 she become training hulk, 1914 barrack vessel and stricken in 1923.