Ottoman ironclad Iclaliye
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 Ottoman Empire
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| Name: | Iclaliye |
| Namesake: | "Glorious" |
| Builder: | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino |
| Laid down: | May 1868 |
| Launched: | 1869 |
| Commissioned: | February 1871 |
| Decommissioned: | 1928 |
| Fate: | Broken up, 1928 |
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| Displacement: | 2,228 t (2,193 long tons; 2,456 short tons) |
| Length: | 66 m (216 ft 6 in) (loa) |
| Beam: | 12.8 m (42 ft 0 in) |
| Draft: | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
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| Propulsion: | 1 compound engine |
| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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Iclaliye ("Glorious") was a unique ironclad warship built for the Ottoman Navy in the late 1860s and early 1870s. She was ordered from the Austro-Hungarian shipyard Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, was laid down in May 1868, and was completed in February 1871. The design for Iclaliye was based on the earlier Asar-i Şevket-class ironclads built in France, though she carried a slightly more powerful armament consisting of two 228 mm (9.0 in) Armstrong guns and three 178 mm (7.0 in) Armstrong guns. During the Russo-Turkish War she supported Ottoman forces fighting in the Caucasus. She spent most of the rest her career out of service, as the Ottoman Navy was allowed to languish. In 1912, the Navy activated the ancient Iclaliye to help provide artillery support to the forces defending Constantinople. She served in subsidiary roles, including as a training ship and a barracks ship, until 1928 when she was decommissioned and broken up.
In the early 1860s, the Eyalet of Egypt, a province of the Ottoman Empire, ordered a series of ironclad warships from foreign shipyards. Iclaliye was the last vessel to be ordered by the Egyptian government. The contract was awarded to the Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino shipyard in Trieste, then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1868. By this time, Egyptian efforts to assert their independence had angered Sultan Abdülaziz, who on 5 June 1867 demanded Egypt surrender all of the ironclads ordered from foreign shipyards. After lengthy negotiations, Egypt surrendered Iclaliye and the other Egyptian ironclads in exchange for the central government recognizing greater autonomy, transforming the Eyalet into the Khedivate of Egypt.Iclaliye was a slightly enlarged version of the earlier Asar-i Şevket-class ironclads that had been built in France, carrying a slightly more powerful armament.
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