Feth-i Bülend-class ironclad
Painting depicting Feth-i Bülend's (left) battle with Vesta (center)
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| Class overview | |
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| Operators: |
 Ottoman Empire |
| Preceded by: | Avnillah-class ironclad |
| Succeeded by: | Ottoman ironclad Iclaliye |
| Built: | 1868–1874 |
| In commission: | 1870–1923 |
| Completed: | 2 |
| Scrapped: | 2 |
| General characteristics | |
| Displacement: | 2,762 tonnes (2,718 long tons) |
| Length: | 72 m (236 ft 3 in) (p.p.) |
| Beam: | 11.9 m (39 ft 1 in) |
| Draft: | 5.2 m (17 ft 1 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 1 shaft, compound engine |
| Speed: | 13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph) |
| Complement: | 16 officers, 153 sailors |
| Armament: | 4 × 229 mm (9 in) Armstrong guns |
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The Feth-i Bülend class was a class of two ironclad warships built for the Ottoman Navy in the 1860s and 1870s. The lead ship, Feth-i Bülend, was built in Britain, and served as the basis for the second, Mukaddeme-i Hayir, which was built in the Ottoman Imperial Arsenal. The design for the ships was based on the earlier Avnillah class, which were also built in Britain. Central battery ships, Feth-i Bülend and Mukaddeme-i Hayir were armed with a battery of four 222 mm (8.7 in) Armstrong guns in a casemate.
Both ships served during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, where they operated against Russian forces in the Black Sea. Feth-i Bülend fought a Russian vessel in an inconclusive battle, and both ships supported an amphibious assault on the port of Sokhumi. After the war, both vessels were placed in reserve, and saw no further activity until 1897, when they were mobilized at the start of the Greco-Turkish War. Like the rest of the Ottoman fleet, both ships were in poor condition and were unable to be used offensively. After the war ended, Feth-i Bülend was rebuilt, but Mukaddeme-i Hayir was too badly deteriorated to merit reconstruction. Feth-i Bülend served as a guard ship in Salonika during the First Balkan War, where she was sunk by a Greek torpedo boat in October 1912. Mukaddeme-i Hayir survived, first as a training ship, and then as a barracks ship, until 1923, when she was broken up.
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