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Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Samsun			C A de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France	6.1906	1907	9.1907	decommissioned 1932, BU 1949
Yarhisar			C A de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France	1906	1907	1907	sunk 3.12.1915
Taşoz			Schneider, Nantes, France	6.1906	1907	1907	decommissioned 1932, BU 1949
Basra			C A de la Gironde, Bordeaux, France	6.1906	1907	9.1907	decommissioned 1932, BU 1949

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	284
Displacement full, t
Length, m	56.3 pp 58.2 oa
Breadth, m	6.30
Draught, m	2.80
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Normand boilers
Power, h. p.	5950
Max speed, kts	28
Fuel, t	coal 70
Endurance, nm(kts)	975(15)
Armament	1 x 1 - 65/50 M1902, 6 x 1 - 47/50 M1902, 2 x 1 - 450 TT (6)
Complement	23

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Project history

Built under Turkish order in France, sister-ships of French destroyers of Durandal class. To WWI beginning they become outdated and because of bad machinery maintenance did not have battle value (in 1915 they made no more than 17kts).

Modernizations

None.

Naval service

Yarhisar was sunk 3.12.1915 by British submarine E11 in sea of Marmara. Remaining ships in October, 1918 were laid up at Istanbul, but 1924-1925 repaired and commissioned again. They were handed over on demolition only in 1949.