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Kocatepe 1979

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Yücetepe (ex-Orleck)	D345		Consolidated, Orange, USA	18.11.1944	12.5.1945	15.9.1945 // 1.10.1982	stricken 4.1998
Savaştepe (ex-Meredith)	D348		Consolidated, Orange, USA	27.1.1945	28.6.1945	31.12.1945 // 20.7.1981	stricken late 1994
Kılıç Ali Paşa (ex-Robert H. McCard)	D349		Consolidated, Orange, USA	26.1.1945	9.11.1945	26.10.1946 // 5.6.1980	stricken late 1998
Piyale Paşa (ex-Fiske)	D350		Bath Iron Wks, USA	9.4.1945	8.9.1945	28.11.1945 // 5.6.1980	BU 1999
Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak (ex-Charles H. Roan)	D351		Bethlehem, Quincy, USA	27.9.1945	15.3.1946	12.9.1946 // 29.9.1973	BU 4.1995
Gayret (ex-Eversole)	D352		Todd-Pacific, Seattle, USA	28.2.1945	8.1.1946	10.7.1946 // 11.7.1973	stricken 1995
Adatepe (ex-Forrest Royal)	D353		Bethlehem, Staten I, Port Richmond, USA	6.6.1945	17.1.1946	28.6.1946 // 27.3.1971	stricken 1993
Kocatepe (ex-Harwood)	D354		Bethlehem, San Pedro, USA	10/1944	24.5.1945	28.9.1945 // 17.12.1971	sunk 22.7.1974
Kocatepe (ex-Norris)	D354		Bethlehem, San Pedro, USA	29.8.1944	25.2.1945	9.6.1945 // 20.7.1975	stricken 1993
Tınaztepe (ex-Keppler)	D355		Bethlehem, San Francisco, USA	4.1944	24.6.1946	23.5.1947 // 30.6.1972	collision 2.5.1984, stricken

Technical data

Data variant	D345, 348-353 (FRAM I)	D354, 354, 355 (FRAM II)
Displacement standard, t	2425	2390
Displacement full, t	3600	3480
Length, m	116.6 wl 119.0 oa	116.6 wl 119.0 oa
Breadth, m	12.5	12.5
Draught, m	4.56 hull 6.40 over sonar	4.60 hull 6.54 over sonar
No of shafts	2	2
Machinery	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers	2 sets General Electric geared steam turbines, 4 Babcock & Wilcox boilers
Power, h. p.	60000	60000
Max speed, kts	32	32
Fuel, t	oil 720	oil 720
Endurance, nm(kts)	4800(15)	4800(15)
Armament	D345: 1 x 8 ASROC ASuR (17 RUR-5), 2 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 -3 24 Mk 32 TT, helicopter deck, 1 DCR D348: 2 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 1 x 2 - 35/90 GDM-A, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, helicopter deck, 1 DCR D351-353: 1 х 8 ASROC ASuR (17 RUR-5), 2 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 DCR D349, 350: 1 х 8 ASROC ASuR (17 RUR-5), 2 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 1 x 2 - 35/90 GDM-A, 2 x 3 - 324 TT, 1 DCR	2 x 2 - 127/38 Mk 38, 2 x 3 - 324 Mk 32 TT, 1 x 24 - 178 Hedgehog Mk15 ASWRL
Electronic equipment	D345, 349, 350: SPS-10, SPS-29, Mk 25 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites, (2-4)x RBOC decoy RL D348: SPS-10, SPS-29, Mk 25 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3 ECM suites, (2-4)x RBOC decoy RL D351-353: SPS-10, SPS-40, Mk 25 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites, (2-4)x RBOC decoy RL	SPS-10, SPS-6, Mk 25 radars, SQS-23 sonar, WLR-1 ECM suite, 2x RBOC decoy RL
Complement	310	274

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Project history

These were all ex-US Gearing class destroyers. Adatepe was purchased on 15 February 1973, two years after first being transferred. The first Kocatepe was sunk in error by Turkish Air Force jets on 22 July 1974 during the landing on Cyprus, having been mistaken for a Greek ship. The ex-Norris, which had been bought for spares, was hurriedly refitted and renamed Kocatepe, commissioning on 20 July 1975. Another ship originally purchased for cannibalization, the ex-Meredith, was also refitted and commissioned as Savaştepe on 20 Jury 1981. The ex-Robert H McCord and Fiske were leased to Turkey in 1980 and were purchased on 6 August 1987, along with ex-Orleck acquired in 1982. An eleventh Gearing, the ex-McKean, previously damaged in a collision, was transferred for cannibalization in 1982. Tinaztepe and both Kacatepes were FRAM II conversions, all remainder were FRAM I.

Modernizations

1974, Kocatepe, Tınaztepe: + 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

mid-1970s, Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak, Gayret, Adatepe: + 1 x 2 - 40/60 Mk 1, 1 x 2 - 35/90 GDM-A

1977, Kocatepe, 1979, Tınaztepe: + 2 x 2 40/60 Mk 1, Mk 37 radar

1980, Kocatepe: - 2 x 1 - 40/60, SPS-6 radar; + 1 x 2 - 35/90 GDM-A, SPS-40 radar

1984, Yücetepe: + 1 x 2 - 35/90 GDM-A, 2 x 1 - 40/60 Mk 3

mid-1980s, Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak, Gayret, Adatepe: - 1 x 2 - 40/60; + 1 x 2 - 35/90 GDM-A

1986, Mareşal Fevzi Çakmak, Gayret: + 2 x 4 Harpoon SSM (8 RGM-84A)

1993, Yücetepe, 1995, Kılıç Ali Paşa: - WLR-1, WLR-3, ULQ-6 ECM suites; + Cutlass B1, Cygnus ECM suites

Naval service

The first Kocatepe was sunk in error by Turkish Air Force jets on 22 July 1974 during the landing on Cyprus, having been mistaken for a Greek ship. Tınaztepe was badly damaged in a collision 2.5.1984 with tanker Aygaz-3 in the Izmit Gulf and stricken 31.10.1984 without repair.