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DEMİRHİSAR destroyers (1942, 1942/1945)


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Sultanhissar 1946

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Muavenet (ex-Inconstant, ex-Muavenet) D340   Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 5/1939 24.2.1941 1/1942 // 3.1946 stricken 1960
Demirhisar D342   Denny, Dumbarton, UK 1939 1941 1942 stricken 1960
Sultanhisar D343   Denny, Dumbarton, UK 3/1939 17.12.1940 1942 stricken 1960
Gayret     Vickers-Armstrong, Barrow, UK 5/1939 15.2.1940 3/1942 // --- commissioned by United Kingdom (Ithuriel)


Technical data


Displacement standard, t

1370

Displacement full, t

2080

Length, m

95.1 pp 98.5 oa

Breadth, m

10.2

Draught, m

3.96

No of shafts

2

Machinery

2 sets Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Admiralty 3-drum boilers

Power, h. p.

34000

Max speed, kts

35.5

Fuel, t

oil 443

Endurance, nm(kts)5500(15)
Armament

as designed: 4 x 1 - 120/45 QF Mk IX, 2 x 4 - 12.7/62, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20 DC)

Demirhisar, Sultanhisar: 4 x 1 - 120/45 QF Mk IX, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk II/IV, 2 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20)

Muavenet: 4 x 1 - 120/45 CP Mk XVIII, 4 x 1 - 20/70 Mk III, 1 x 4 - 533 TT, 2 DCT, 1 DCR (20)

Electronic equipment

Demirhisar, Sultanhisar: type 271, type 286M/P radars, type 124 sonar

Muavenet: type 271, type 291 radars, type 144 sonar

Complement

145



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<i>Sultanhissar</i> 1946
Sultanhissar 1946


Project history

In the late 1938 Turkey ordered in the Great Britain 4 destroyers similar to British I class, but with quadruple TT banks instead of quintuple and  simplified fire control system "director-rangefinder". After WWII beginning British Government bought 2 destroyers built by Vickers-Armstrong, and in 1942 they were commissioned by Royal Navy as Inconstant (Muavenet) and Ithuriel (Gayret). Inconstant in 1945 was returned to Turkey under former name. Ithuriel was hard damaged by German aircraft 28.11.1942 and was never repaired, in 1945 she was broken up; instead of her Turkey in 1946 received destroyer Oribi. The Denni-built ships Demirhissar and Sultanhissar in 1942 were transferred to Turkey, however for period of transition they nominally joined Royal Navy structure and were complemented by British crews.    Designed armament corresponded to British standards: 4 120mm/45 Mk lX** guns, 2 quadruple 12.7mm AA MGs, but by the moment of transfer AA armament was changed.

Modernizations

early 1950s, all: - 2 x 1 - 20/70; + 6 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

Naval service

No significant events.