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PEYK-İ ŞEVKET torpedo cruisers (1907)


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Peyk-i Şevket 1910

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Peyk-i Şevket, 1924- Peyk     Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany 2/1906 15.11.1906 11/1907 decommissioned 1944, BU 1953
Berk-i Satvet, 1924- Berk     Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany 2/1906 1.12.1906 11/1907 decommissioned 1945, BU 1953


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

775
Displacement full, t 
Length, m

80.1 pp
Breadth, m

8.40
Draught, m

4.60
No of shafts

2
Machinery

2 VTE, 4 Marine (Schulz-Thornycroft) boilers
Power, h. p.

5100
Max speed, kts

21
Fuel, t

coal 244
Endurance, nm(kts)3240(10)
Armament

2 x 1 - 105/37 SK L/40 C/97, 6 x 1 - 57/42 SK L/45 C/99, 2 x 1 - 37/42 SK L/45 C/99, 1 - 450 TT (bow), 2 x 1 - 450 TT
Complement

105


Standard scale images


<i>Peyk-i Şevket </i>1908
Peyk-i Şevket 1908
<i>Berk </i>1938
Berk 1938


Graphics


<i>Peyk-i Şevket </i>1910
Peyk-i Şevket 1910
<i>Peyk </i>1937
Peyk 1937


Project history

Fast torpedo gunboats; in Turkish Navy they officially were rated as torpedo cruisers. Successful ships, but because of strong machinery deterioration and unsatisfactory maintenance to WWI beginning they substantially lost battle efficiency. In particular, in 1915 Peik-i-Shevket could made only 18kts.

Modernizations

(1937-1938, Gölcük Tersane), Peyk: hull and superstructures were reconstructed; real speed was 18kts, endurance 2000(10)nm; - 2 x 1 - 105/37, 2 x 1 - 37/42, 1 - 450 TT (bow); + 2 x 1 - 88/42 SK L/45 C/09

(1937-1938, Gölcük Tersane), Berk: hull and superstructures were reconstructed; real speed was 18kts, endurance 2000(10)nm; - 2 x 1 - 105/37, 2 x 1 - 37/42, 1 - 450 TT (bow); + 2 x 1 - 88/42 SK L/45 C/09, 25 mines

Naval service

Berk-i-Satvet 2.1.1915 received serious damages on Russian mine. Peik-i-Shevket 6.8.1915 was torpedoed by British submarine E11; both ships were under repair till 1917. After First World War Peyk was laid up at Istanbul. In 1937-1938 both survived ships passed repair and modernization: superstructures were reconstructed, ship ends (new stem and transom stern) were altered. After that they were used as patrols and TSs though officially continued to be rated as torpedo cruisers. Both were handed over on demolition only in 1953-1955.