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TCG Sultanhisar (P-111)

History
Turkish Navy EnsignTurkey
Name: TCG Sultanhisar (P-111)
Namesake: Sultanhisar
Owner: Turkish Navy
Operator: Escort and Patrol Fleet Command
Builder: Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp. in Portland, Oregon, USA
Completed: 1963
Acquired: May 9, 1964
Commissioned: January 25, 1965
Decommissioned: June 3, 2002
General characteristics
Type: Patrol boat
Displacement: 295 tons (full load)
Length: 175 ft (53 m)
Beam: 23 ft (7.0 m)
Draft: 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)
Propulsion: 2 2,400hp ALCO 169X 10AT diesel engines, 2 shafts
Speed: 20 knots (37 km/h)
Complement: 59
Armament:

TCG Sultanhisar (P-111), ex-USS PC-1638, was a Hisar-class patrol boat of the Turkish Navy. She was built in 1963 by Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp. in Portland, Oregon as a submarine chaser.

The vessel was transferred on May 9, 1964 along with two other boats of the same class to Turkey. Three other ships of the class followed the next year. Commissioned on January 25, 1965, the Sultanhisar was stationed at the Gölcük Naval Base together with other Hisar-class patrol boats, before they were deployed in 1977 to the naval base in Izmir.

Sultanhisar was decommissioned on June 3, 2002 as Burak-class corvettes entered service.

TCG Sultanhisar (P-111) was the third ship of the Turkish Navy to have the name, following the destroyer TCG Sultanhisar and the torpedo boat Sultanhisar.



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