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ZUHAF sloops (1896)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Zuhaf     Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul 1892 31.8.1894 10/1896 survey vessel 1917
Kilid Bahir     Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul 1892 31.8.1894 10/1896 stricken 1909


Technical data


Displacement normal, t643
Displacement full, t 
Length, m57.9 pp
Breadth, m7.32
Draught, m3.51 max
No of shafts1
Machinery1 VTE, 2 cylindrical boilers
Power, h. p.640
Max speed, kts14
Fuel, t

coal 80

Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armament1 x 1 - 120/22 RK L/25 C/78, 4 x 1 - 37/37 SK L/40 C/91
Complement82


Standard scale images


<i>Kilid Bahir </i>1896
Kilid Bahir 1896


Project history

Steel-hulled and barque-rigged, these two vessels reused machinery and equipment from earlier vessels. Designed armament consisted of 2 120mm/22 Krupp BLs, 4 37mm Krupp QFs and 2 450mm TTs.

Modernizations: None.

Naval service

Zuhaf was laid up and disarmed in 1916, converted to survey vessel in 1917 and stricken in 1932.