| History | |
|---|---|
.svg){kind=small} Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Mecidiye |
| Namesake | Abdülmecidiye |
| Launched | July 25, 1903 |
| Commissioned | December 19, 1903 |
| Fate | Struck mine and sank April 3, 1914 |
| General characteristics Mecidiye | |
| Type | Protected Cruiser |
| Displacement | 3,250 tons |
| Length | 102.4 metres (336 ft) |
| Beam | 12.8 metres (42 ft) |
| Draught | 4.8 metres (16 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 VQE; 12,500 hp |
| Speed | 18 knots |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) 2 x 152 mm L/45 guns 2 x 120 mm L/45 guns 2 torpedo tubes, 457 mm |
| History | |
 Russian Empire | |
| Name | Prut |
| Yard number | Ropit Yard, Odessa |
| Acquired | Raised May 31, 1915[1] |
| Commissioned | June 8, 1915 |
| Fate | Captured by Germany returned to Ottoman Empire, May 1918[2] |
| General characteristics Prut | |
| Type | Protected Cruiser |
| Displacement | 3,250 tons |
| Length | 102.4 metres (336 ft) |
| Beam | 12.8 metres (42 ft) |
| Draught | 4.8 metres (16 ft) |
| Propulsion | 2 VQE; 12,500 hp |
| Speed | 17.9 knots |
| Armament | list error: <br /> list (help) 6 x 130 mm guns 4 x 130 mm guns 4 x 75 mm AA guns[3] |
| History | |
| Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Mecidiye |
| Acquired | May 13, 1918[4] |
| Fate | Used as cadet training ship, scrapped in 1952 |
The Ottoman cruiser Mecidiye was launched July 25, 1903 and commissioned December 19, 1903.
Balkan War edit
In October 1912, Mecidiye shelled Bulgarian forts near Varna and other military targets.[5] Later she was attacked by the Greek submarine Delfin at 800 meters, but the torpedo missed.[6] On Feb 18, 1913, Mecidiye was part of a covering force for a shore landing at Sarkoy.[7]
World War I edit
Transported Hafiz Hakki Bey to Trabizond, in December 1914, to deliver messages to the 3rd Army Chief of Staff.[8] On April 3, 1915, while attacking the port of Odessa, Mecidiye struck a mine and sank, losing 26 men. She was later raised by the Russians, refitted at Ropit Yard, Odessa and renamed Prut. Captured by the Germans at Sevastopol in May 1918, she was returned to the Ottoman Empire and renamed Mecidiye.
Joined the young navy of the Turkish Republic in 1925. Was used as a cadet training ship until she was scrapped in 1952.
Notes edit
- ^ Gardiner, Robert, Randal Gray and Przemyslaw Budzbon, Conway's all the world's fighting ships, 1906-1921, (Naval Institute Press, 1985), 307.
- ^ Gardiner, 307.
- ^ Gardiner, 307.
- ^ Gardiner, 307.
- ^ Sondhaus, Lawrence, Naval warfare, 1815-1914, (Routledge, 2001), 219.
- ^ Sondhaus, 220.
- ^ Erickson, Edward J., Defeat in detail: the Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913, (Greenwood Publishing, 2003), 264.
- ^ Erickson, Edward J., Ordered to die: a history of the Ottoman army in the First World War, (Greenwood Press, 2001), 54.
References edit
- Erickson, Edward J., Defeat in detail: the Ottoman Army in the Balkans, 1912-1913, Greenwood Publishing, 2003.
- Erickson, Edward J., Ordered to die: a history of the Ottoman army in the First World War, Greenwood Press, 2001.
- Gardiner, Robert, Randal Gray and Przemyslaw Budzbon, Conway's all the world's fighting ships, 1906-1921, Naval Institute Press, 1985.