NAVYPEDIA

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
İsa Reis			F C de la Mediterranée, Granville, France	1911	11/1911	6/1914	customs vessel 1926, minesweeper 1932, survey vessel 1948
Durak Reis, 1.1916- Kemal Reis			F C de la Mediterranée, Granville, France	1911	2/1912	6/1914	customs vessel 1926, minesweeper 1932, survey vessel 1948
Hizir Reis			F C de la Mediterranée, Granville, France	1911	10.4.1912	6/1914	captured by Greece 6.7.1919, returned 1922, minesweeper 1932, pilot hulk 1948

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	413
Displacement full, t
Length, m	47.0
Breadth, m	7.90
Draught, m	1.30
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VTE, 3 Scotch boilers
Power, h. p.	850
Max speed, kts	14
Fuel, t	coal
Endurance, nm(kts)
Armament	3 x 1 - 75/48 Canet, 2 x 1 - 47/50 M1902
Complement	60

Standard scale images

Project history

Built in 1911-1912, but were interned by French government and arrived to Istanbul only 13.6.1914.

Modernizations

1926, all: - 1 x 1 - 75/48

1932, all: + sweeps

Naval service

Isa Reis and Hizir Reis respectively 11.7.1915 and 21.1.1915 were mined at Bosporus, but were salvaged. However, former was never repaired and laid up till 1924, then she was converted at first to customs patrol vessel, and then to a minesweeper.    Isa Reis and Kemal Reis in 1948 were disarmed and converted to survey vessels, they were stricken in 1955, BU only in 1964 and 1973 respectively. Hizir Reis since 1948 became a pilot hulk at Izmir, stricken in 1952, in 1958 sold private, converted to cargo steamship and under various names sailed up to late 1990s.