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Nusret 1938

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Nusret			Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany	1911	4.12.1911	1913	diver vessel Yardin 1937

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	365
Displacement full, t
Length, m	40.2 pp
Breadth, m	7.57
Draught, m	3.40
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 2 Schultz boilers
Power, h. p.	1200
Max speed, kts	15
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	2 x 1 - 47/42 SK L/45 C/99, 40 mines
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Project history

Small minelayer, designed on the basis of a tug. On trials she made 15kts, but after arrival in 1913 to Turkey she made no more than 13kts. In 1926-1927 she was repaired and modernized in Gölcük.

Modernizations

1927: - 2 x 1 - 47/42; + 2 x 1 - 57/42 SK L/45 C/99

Naval service

Nusret was used by Navy as minelayer, diving vessel and tender till 1955, then she was laid up. In 1962 Nusret was sold to private company, rebuilt to cargo vessel and in 1966 renamed Kapitan Nusret. In 1990 vessel foundered as result of accident in Turkish port Mersin. She was salvaged in the same year and preserved up to present time at Mersin as hulk. Memorial full-size copy of Nusret in an original form (for 1915) was installed ashore in Canakkale.