Ottoman ironclad Osmaniye
Osmaniye in Istanbul
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History | |
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Ottoman Empire | |
Name | Osmaniye |
Namesake | Osman I |
Builder | Robert Napier and Sons |
Laid down | 1863 |
Launched | 2 September 1864 |
Commissioned | November 1865 |
Decommissioned | 31 July 1909 |
Fate | Broken up, 1923 |
General characteristics | |
Class and type | Osmaniye class |
Displacement | 6,400 metric tons (6,300 long tons; 7,100 short tons) |
Length | 91.4 m (299 ft 10 in) (loa) |
Beam | 16.9 m (55 ft 5 in) |
Draft | 7.9 m (25 ft 11 in) |
Installed power | 6 × box boilers |
Propulsion |
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Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) |
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Osmaniye, named for Sultan Osman I, was the lead ship of the Osmaniye class of ironclad warships built for the Ottoman Navy in the 1860s by Robert Napier and Sons of the United Kingdom. A broadside ironclad, Osmaniye carried a battery of fourteen 203 mm (8 in) RML Armstrong guns and ten 36-pounder Armstrongs in a traditional broadside arrangement, with a single 229 mm (9 in) RML as a chase gun. Among the more powerful of Ottoman ironclads, the Navy decided to keep the ship out of the action during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 to preserve the vessel. She spent the 1880s out of service, though she was heavily rebuilt in the early 1890s and converted into a more modern barbette ship. She was nevertheless in poor condition by the time of the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, as a result saw no action, and was disarmed after the war. She remained in commission until 1909 but saw no further service, and was broken up in 1923.
Design
Osmaniye was 91.4 m (299 ft 10 in)
The ship was powered by a single horizontal
The ship was armed with a battery of one 229 mm (9 in) rifled muzzle-loading (RML) Armstrong gun and fourteen 203 mm (8 in) RML Armstrongs. These were supplemented with ten 36-pounder guns, also manufactured by Armstrong. The 229 mm gun was placed on the upper deck, forward, and the rest of the guns were mounted on each broadside. The ship's wrought iron armored belt was 140 mm (5.5 in) thick, and was capped with 76 mm (3 in) thick transverse bulkhead at either end. Above the belt were strakes of armor 127 mm (5 in) thick that protected the battery, transverse bulkheads 114 mm (4.5 in) connected the battery armor.[1][2]
Service history
Construction and early career
Osmaniye was ordered from the
The Ottoman fleet began mobilizing in September 1876 to prepare for a conflict with Russia, as tensions with the country had been growing for several years,
1880s–1890s: inactivity and reconstruction
After the conclusion of the war in 1878, Osmaniye was
In 1884, the 36-pounder guns were removed and a light battery of four 47 mm (1.9 in)
Osmaniye was again refitted at the Imperial Arsenal from 1890 to 1894, the first vessel to receive these updates. The ship's main battery was strengthened by the installation of two Krupp
Later career
That year, with the outbreak of the
The condition of the Ottoman fleet could not be concealed from foreign observers, particularly the British
Notes
- ^ a b c d Lyon, p. 389.
- ^ a b c d e f g Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 133.
- ^ Langensiepen & Güleryüz, pp. 133, 198.
- ^ Sturton, p. 138.
- ^ Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 5.
- ^ Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 194.
- ^ Sondhaus, p. 90.
- ^ Langensiepen & Güleryüz, pp. 6–7.
- ^ Sturton, pp. 138–144.
- ^ Sturton, pp. 144–145.
- ^ Sturton, pp. 141–145.
- ^ Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 8.
- ^ Lyon, p. 387.
- ^ Langensiepen & Güleryüz, pp. 8–9, 133.
- ^ Langensiepen & Güleryüz, pp. 9–10, 133.
References
- Langensiepen, Bernd & Güleryüz, Ahmet (1995). The Ottoman Steam Navy 1828–1923. London: Conway Maritime Press. ISBN 978-0-85177-610-1.
- Lyon, Hugh (1979). "Turkey". In Gardiner, Robert (ed.). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860–1905. London: Conway Maritime Press. pp. 388–394. ISBN 978-0-85177-133-5.
- Sondhaus, Lawrence (2014). Navies of Europe. London: Routledge. ISBN 978-1-317-86978-8.
- Sturton, Ian. "Through British Eyes: Constantinople Dockyard, the Ottoman Navy, and the Last Ironclad, 1876–1909". Warship International. 57 (2). Toledo: International Naval Research Organization. ISSN 0043-0374.