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KOCATEPE destroyers (1931)


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Kocatepe 1931

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Kocatepe     Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy 1.1930 7.2.1931 10.1931 stricken 2.1954
Adatepe     Ansaldo, Genoa, Italy 1.1930 19.3.1931 10.1931 stricken 2.1954


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1250

Displacement full, t1650
Length, m

98.0 pp 100.2 oa

Breadth, m

9.37

Draught, m

2.90

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft boilers

Power, h. p.

40000

Max speed, kts

36

Fuel, t

oil 360

Endurance, nm(kts)3500(15)
Armament

4 x 1 - 120/50 Ansaldo 1926, 3 x 1 - 40/39 Vickers-Terni 1917, 2 x 3 - 533 TT

Complement

149



Standard scale images


<i>Kocatepe </i>1935
Kocatepe 1935


Graphics


<i>Kocatepe </i> 1931
Kocatepe 1931


Project history

Ordered under the 1929 programme. Design was developed by experts of Ansaldo on basis of Italian destroyer Folgore, from which Turkish ships differed, first of all by guns arrangement: in single mounts, as on British and French ships of given type. It demanded length increase, breadth was thus moderated for providing of higher speed. Together with highly arranged armament, it has finished stability, to critical level. Two-funneled outline profile became one more significant difference doing Turkish destroyers a little similar to prototype.    On trials ships made up to 41kts at 52000hp. 533mm torpedo calibre was used in Turkey for the first time.

Modernizations

1942, both: + 2 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV

Naval service

Since 1947 till exception from fleet list they were used for training.