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NUSRET minelayer (1913)


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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

Complement 


Standard scale images


<i>Nusret </i>1936
Nusret 1936


Graphics


<i>Nusret </i>1938
Nusret 1938


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.