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Asar-ı Tevfik

Asar-ı Tevfik

Wrecked

Ottoman Navy

TypeIronclad
WarFirst Balkan War
Main guns8 × 9″ guns

Elderly ironclad. Fought at Elli without being hit. In February 1913, sent to shell Bulgarian positions near Yalıköy on the Black Sea coast, she ran onto an uncharted sandbank and could not be refloated.

The Ottoman Ironclad Asar-i Tewfik Photo: Charles Chusseau-Flaviens, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

As built

  • 8 × 220 mm (9 in) guns

1906

  • 3 × 150 mm (5.9 in) guns
  • 7 × 120 mm (4.7 in) guns
  • 6 × 57 mm (2.2 in) guns
  • 2 × 37 mm (1.5 in) guns
BuilderFCM, La Seyne
Laid down1867
Launched1868
Commissioned1870
Displacement4,687 t (4,613 long tons; 5,167 short tons)
Length83.01 m (272 ft 4 in)
Speed13 kn (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement320

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

1868

16 December 1912

Not hit

Fate

Wrecked

Wrecked off Çernes, 11 February 1913