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Mecidiye 1910

Ships

Name	No	Yard No	Builder	Laid down	Launched	Comp	Fate
Mecidiye (ex-Abdül Mecid)			Cramp, Philadelphia, USA	7.11.1901	25.7.1903	19.12.1903	sunk 3.4.1915, to Russia (Прут [Prut]), returned 5.1918, decommissioned 3.1947, BU 1952

Technical data

Displacement normal, t	3485
Displacement full, t	3967
Length, m	100.5 pp 102.4 oa
Breadth, m	12.8
Draught, m	4.80 normal 5.33 max
No of shafts	2
Machinery	2 VQE, 16 Niclausse boilers
Power, h. p.	12500
Max speed, kts	22
Fuel, t	coal 610
Endurance, nm(kts)	4700(10)
Armour, mm	deck: 38 with 102mm slopes
Armament	2 x 1 - 152/44 Bethlehem No 2, 8 x 1 - 120/45 Armstrong Y, 6 x 1 - 47/50 Vickers, 6 x 1 - 37/30 Vickers, 2 - 450 TT (beam, 6)
Complement	312

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Project history

Built in the USA under the same program, as Hamidiye to which was close on construction and had similar armament (these ships quite often even called as sister-ships, that is an error), ordered in 1900. Originally ship was named Abdul Mecid, renamed Mecidiye before commission. She was equipped with whimsical and unreliable Niclausse boilers. On trials she reached 22kts at 13396hp, but in 1914 could make no more than 18kts.

Ship protection

Protective deck had 38mm flat part and 102mm slopes.

Modernizations

1918: armament consisted of 10 x 1 - 130/53 (ru)

(1925-6/1927, Gölcük Tersane): boilers were replaced by 16 Babcock & Wilcox; armament consisted of 4 x 1 - 130/53, 4 x 1 - 76/50 Schneider, 2 - 450 TT (beam, 6); real speed was 20kts.

Naval service

3.4.1915 Mecidiye was sunk on shallow water at Odessa on Russian mine. 8.6.1915 she was salvaged, later repaired, rearmed (10 130mm/55, 4 75mm/50 guns) and 29.10.1915 entered Russian Imperial Navy as Prut. She was commissioned in February, 1916, but in view of bad boilers condition practically was never used in operations. 1.5.1918 she was captured at Sevastopol by German troops and 12.5.1918 returned to Turkey under former name. After returning from Russia Mecidiye was used as training hulk armed with 2 152mm/45 and 2 120mm/45 guns, but in 1919 laid up at Istanbul in the semi-disarmed condition.    Mecidiye was again commissioned in June, 1927 after repair at Gölcük. Real speed did not exceed 20kts. Since 1940 she was used as training hulk at Gölcük; she was stricken 1.3.1947, but taken apart on metal only in 1952-1956.