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MUKADDEME-İ HAYİR casemate ironclad (1874)


Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Mukaddeme-i Hayir     Tersane-i Amire, Istanbul 1870 28.10.1872 1874 training hulk 1911


Technical data


Displacement normal, t2762
Displacement full, t 
Length, m72.0 pp
Breadth, m12.0
Draught, m5.51 max
No of shafts1
Machinery1 HC, 4 rectangular boilers
Power, h. p.3000
Max speed, kts12
Fuel, tcoal 270
Endurance, nm(kts) 
Armour, mmiron; belt: 229 - 152, ends: 76, casemates: 229 - 152
Armament4 x 1 - 229/14 Armstrong 12.5-ton MLR
Complement169


Standard scale images


practically sister-ship Feth-i Bülend 1870
practically sister-ship Feth-i Bülend 1870


Project history

Small, iron-hulled casemate ironclads resembling the Avnillah class except that the casemates were not cut away between the guns, so that the forward guns could only fire on forward bearings and the aft guns on aft bearings. They were very high out of the water. Mukaddeme-i Hayir become the first large warship built in Turkey.

Ship protection: The complete wl belt extended for 1.2m below to 0.6m above lwl, and was 229mm thick above and 152mm thick below lwl. The casemates were 229mm thick below the port sills and 152mm thick above.

Modernizations

1882: + 2 x 1 - 87/22 RK L/24 C/82

1890: + 2 x 1 - 57/37 SK L/40 C/91, 2 x 5 - 37/27 RV L/30, 2 x 1 - 25/42 Nordenfelt

Naval service

Ship suffered of very poor quality of construction, her guns and boilers were landed in 1898. In 1911 she become training hulk, 1914 barrack vessel and stricken in 1923.