Nusret

Museum ship

Type	Auxiliary
War	First World War
Main guns	2 × 47mm SK L/45 C/99 Krupp quick-firing guns

Small minelayer. On the night of 8 March 1915 she laid 26 mines parallel to the shore in Eren Köy Bay, where the allies had not swept. They sank three battleships on 18 March. A replica is preserved at Çanakkale.

Nusrat minelayer in Tarsus Çanakkale Park Photo: Nedim Ardoğa, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

1913

2 × 47mm SK L/45 C/99 Krupp quick-firing guns
40 mines

1927

2 × 57mm SK L/45 C/99 quick-firing guns
60 mines

Builder	Schiffs & Maschinenbau AG Germania, Kiel, German Empire
Laid down	1911
Launched	4 December 1911
Commissioned	1913
Displacement	365 t
Length	40.20 m (131 ft 11 in) (LPP)
Speed	15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) (trials) 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) (1914)

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

Career

Launched

4 December 1911

Attack on the Dardanelles Narrows

Survived

18 March 1915

Her mines did the damage

Fate

Museum ship

April 1989 capsized near Mersin, 1999 salvaged, 2003 memorial/museum ship