Peyk-i Şevket

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Source: Turkish Navy

Tonnage:  775 tonnes

Length: 80.1 m.

Beam: 8.4 m.

Draught: 4.6 m.

Engines: 2 VTE; 5,100 hp; Germania

Speed: 18 kts.

Armament: 2-105 mm L/40 quick firing guns, Krupp

6-57 mm L/40 quick firing guns, Krupp

2-37 mm L/40 quick firing guns, Krupp

3 torpedo tubes, 450 mm

 

Record:

- Launched on 15 November 1906.

- Commissioned by the Turkish Navy in November 1907.

- Took part in the Balkan War.

- On 6 August 1915, Peyk-i Şevket was hit and damaged by a torpedo fired by the British submarine E11 in the Sea of Marmara near Silivri.

- Returned to service in 1917.

- Laid up at Istanbul on 31 October 1918.

- Renamed Peyk in 1924 and refurbished by the Turkish Navy at Gölcük.

- Decommissioned in 1944.

- Broken up in 1954.


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