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Saldıray 1939

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Saldıray			Germaniawerft, Kiel, Germany	2/1937	23.7.1938	6/1939	stricken 1958
Atılay			Valde & Gölcük, Istanbul	8/1937	19.5.1939	4/1940	sunk 14.7.1942
Yıldıray			Valde & Gölcük, Istanbul	9/1937	28.8.1939	1/1946	stricken 1957

Technical data

Displacement standard, t
Displacement normal, t	934 / 1210
Length, m	80.0
Breadth, m	6.40
Draught, m	4.26
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 B & W diesels / 2 BBC electric motors
Power, h. p.	3500 / 1000
Max speed, kts	20 / 9
Fuel, t	diesel oil
Endurance, nm(kts)	8000(10) /
Armament	Saldıray, Atılay: 1 x 1 - 105/42 Ubts L/45 C/16, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 14) Yıldıray: 1 x 1 - 105/45 Ubts L/45 C/16, 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk 4, 6 - 533 TT (4 bow, 2 stern, 14)
Electronic equipment	presumably GHG hydrophone
Complement	44
Diving depth operational, m	100

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Project history

Large submarines with high surfaced speed, ordered under the 1936 programme. Project 280 was developed by IvS on the basis of German submarine of IX series. Double-hulled, had atypical for German-built submarines CT construction: 105mm gun placed on it and was covered by light shield.    Lead Saldıray begun passage to Turkey 2.4.1939 under German flag. Two other submarines were built under licence in Istanbul with German technical help, but on 70% from Turkish materials and by Turkish workers. Given fact predetermined a serious delay with completion: after a beginning of war German experts abandoned country, and shipbuilder not having proper experience could complete Atılay in 1940, and Yıldıray only after war.

Modernizations

mid-1940s, Saldıray, Atılay: + 1 x 1 - 20/70 Oerlikon Mk IV.

Naval service

Atılay was lost 14.7.1942 being stricken by drifting mine at Canakkale (Dardanelles).

1939