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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Beyrut			Wigram, Blackwall, UK	1858	1859	1860	stricken 1907
Seddülbahir			White, Cowes, UK	1858	1859	1860	stricken 1891
İskenderiye			Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul	1860	1862	1863	stricken 1907
Zuhaf			Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul	1861	1862	1863	stricken 1891
Utarit			Tersane-i Amire, Gemlik	1862	1863	1864	stricken 1896
Meriç			Tersane-i Amire, Gemlik	1862	1863	1864	stricken 1905

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	599
Displacement full, t
Length, m	52.9 pp
Breadth, m	8.10
Draught, m	3.91 max
No of shafts	1
Machinery	1 2-cyl HSE, 2 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.	450
Max speed, kts	10
Fuel, t	coal 120
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	Beyrut, Seddülbahir: 12 x 1 - 120/16 33pdr SBML others: 1 x 1 - 127/16 45pdr MLR, 2 x 1 - 75/14 11pdr BL
Complement	120

Standard scale images

Project history

This class were wooden-hulled barque-rigged sloops, wood- and copper-sheathed. They had two funnels, a straight stem and an overhanging stern.

Modernizations: 1870s, İskenderiye, Zuhaf, Utarit, Meriç: + 4 x 5 - 37/17 Hotchkiss

1879, İskenderiye, Zuhaf, Utarit, Meriç: were armed with 2 x 1 - 120/22 RK L/25 C/78, 2 x 1 - 76/19 12pdr BL, 2 x 1 - 25/42 Nordenfelt

1880, Beyrut, Seddülbahir: were armed with 2 x 1 - 120/22 RK L/25 C/78, 4 x 1 - 37/20 Hotchkiss

1903, Beyrut: - 2 x 1 - 37/20; + 2 x 1 - 25/42 Nordenfelt

1903, İskenderiye, Meriç: - 2 x 1 - 76/19, 2 x 1 - 25/42; + 2 x 1 - 37/42 SK L/45 C/99

Naval service

Some of their machinery and equipment after they were stricken was used in new gunboats after they were discarded 1894-1905.