List of wrecked or lost ships of the Ottoman steam navy
This is a list of Ottoman Navy steamships lost during Italo-Ottoman War, Balkan Wars and World War I:
Italo-Ottoman War
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Italian cruiser bombarding Ottoman vessels in Beirut harbor.
Name | Location | Date | Cause |
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Hamidiye (torpedo boat) | Reşadiye (present day: Igoumenitsa) | 30 Sep. 1911 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian destroyers.[1][2] |
Alpagot (torpedo boat) | Reşadiye, (present day: Igoumenitsa) | 30 Sep. 1911 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian destroyers.[1] |
Kastamonu (gunboat) | Konfida (Kunfuda, present day: Al Qunfudhah, Al Bahah Province, Saudi Arabia), Red Sea | 7 Jan. 1912 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian cruiser Piemonte and destroyer Artigliere.[3][4] |
Gökçedağ (gunboat) | Konfida, Red Sea | 7 Jan. 1912 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian cruiser Piemonte and destroyer Artigliere.[5] |
Refahiye (gunboat) | Konfida, Red Sea | 7 Jan. 1912 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian cruiser Piemonte and destroyer Artigliere[5] |
Ayintab (gunboat) | Konfida, Red Sea | 7 Jan. 1912 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian cruiser Piemonte and destroyer Artigliere[5] |
Ordu (gunboat) | Konfida, Red Sea | 7 Jan. 1912 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian cruiser Piemonte and destroyer Artigliere[5] |
Bafra (gunboat) | Konfida, Red Sea | 7 Jan. 1912 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian cruiser Piemonte and destroyer Artigliere[5] |
Avnillah (armoured corvette) | 33°54′N 35°31′E / 33.900°N 35.517°E, Port of Beirut | 24 Feb. 1912 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian cruiser Giuseppe Garibaldi and Varese at Battle of Beirut.[6] |
Ankara (torpedo boat) | 33°54′N 35°31′E / 33.900°N 35.517°E, Port of Beirut | 24 Feb. 1912 | Sunk by gunfire from Italian Giuseppe Garibaldi and Varese at Battle of Beirut.[4] |
Balkan Wars
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The sinking of the Ottoman armoured corvette Feth-i Bülend as depicted in a lithograph. The commander of torpedo boat No 11 Nikolaos Votsis is shown in the lower left corner.
Name | Location | Date | Cause |
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No 9 (gunboat) | Preveza | 20 Oct. 1912 | Scuttled by crew.[7] |
No 10 (gunboat) | Preveza | 20 Oct. 1912 | Scuttled by crew.[7] |
Feth-i Bülend (armoured corvette) | Port of Thessaloniki | 31 Oct. 1912 | Sunk by torpedo by Greek torpedo boat No 11[6] with the loss of seven crew, including ship's imam.[8] |
Antalya (torpedo boat) | Preveza | 5 Nov. 1912 | Scuttled by crew. Salvaged by Greeks on 29 Nov. 1912. Royal Hellenic Navy Nikopolis in 1913.[4] |
Tokad (torpedo boat) | Preveza | 5 Nov. 1912 | Scuttled by crew. Salvaged by Greeks on 29 Nov. 1912. Royal Hellenic Navy Totoi in 1913.[4] |
Trabzon (armed steamer) | off Lesbos | 9 Nov. 1912 | Sunk by torpedo by Greek torpedo boat No 14. Captain and engineer were killed in the explosion.[8][9] |
Âsâr-ı Tevfik (armoured corvette) | 41°25′N 28°29′E / 41.417°N 28.483°E, near Çernes,[10] Black Sea | 8-11 Feb. 1913[10] | Run aground on an uncharted sandbank while approaching to Podima (present day: Yalıköy, Çatalca).[11] |
First World War
Graphic depiction of the raid by British submarine HMS B11, commanded by Norman Douglas Holbrook, on the Dardanelles leading to the sinking of the Ottoman armoured frigate Mesudiye
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HMS E11 commanded by Martin Dunbar-Nasmith torpedoes the Stamboul off Constantinople, 25 May 1915. Drawing from the Illustrated London News.
Name | Location | Date | Cause |
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Nilüfer (minelayer) | about 10 miles northwest of the Bosporus | 19 Nov. 1914 | Sunk by Russian mine. 55 lives lost.[12] |
Mesudiye (armoured frigate) | near Erenköy | 26 Dec. 1914 | Sunk by British submarine HMS B11.[13] |
Mecidiye (protected cruiser) | 15 nautical miles off Vorontsoskiy Lighthouse, Odessa | 3 Apr. 1915 | Sunk by Russian mine. Salvaged by Russians on 8 June 1915. Commissioned as Prut Imperial Russian Navy.[14] |
Demirhisar (torpedo boat) | Chios | 16 Apr. 1915 | Beached, the crew of one German and 23 Ottomans in interned by the Greeks.[15] Later Blown up by the British at Chios.[16] |
Peleng-i Deryâ (torpedo gunboat) | near Bakırköy | 23 May 1915 | Torpedoed and sunk in shallow water by British submarine HMS E11[17] |
Nûr-ül Bâhir (gunboat) | near Mürefte | 1 May 1915 | Sunk by the British submarine HMS E14 with loss four officers and thirty-two crew. Twenty-nine men are rescued by Zuhaf.[18] |
Barbaros Hayreddin (battleship) | 40°27′N 26°48′E / 40.450°N 26.800°E, Sea of Marmara | 8 Aug. 1915 | Sunk by British submarine HMS E11 in the Sea of Marmara. 253 lives lost.[19] |
Samsun (minelayer) | Erdek | 14 Aug. 1915 | Sunk by British submarine HMS E2 with two officer and eight crew.[19][20] |
Yozgat (gunboat) | near Kefken Island, Kandıra | 9 Dec. 1915 | Sunk by gunfire from Russian Derzky class destroyer Derzky, Gnevny, Bespokoyny at Second Battle of Kirpen Island[3][21] |
Taşköprü (gunboat) | near Kefken Island, Kandıra | 9 Dec. 1915 | Sunk by gunfire from Russian Derzky class destroyer Derzky, Gnevny, Bespokoyny at Second Battle of Kirpen Island.[5][21] |
Yarhisar (destroyer) | off Yalova | 3 Dec. 1915 | Sunk by British submarine HMS E11.[17] |
Kütahya (torpedo boat) | north of Karaburun, Arnavutköy | 12 Sep. 1916 | Sunk by mine north of Karaburun[4] |
Gayret-i Vataniye (destroyer) | Varna | 30 Oct. 1916 | Grounded off Varna. Blown up by crew after all useful equipment had been removed.[16] |
Yadigâr-ı Millet (destroyer) | İstinye | 9–10 Jul. 1917 | Bombed and sunk by British aircraft at İstinye. Refloated and drydocked at Tersâne-i Âmire on 24 Oct. 1917.[16] |
Hamidabad (torpedo gunboat) | near İğneada | 31 Oct. 1917 | Sunk by Russian Derzky class destroyer Pylky and Bystry.[22][23] |
Midilli | 40°05′N 26°02′E / 40.083°N 26.033°E, near Imbros | 20 Jan. 1918 | Sunk after hitting four mines near Imbros.[24] |
Sources
- ↑ Bernd Langensiepen, Ahmet Güleryüz, The Ottoman Steam Navy, 1828-1923, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1995, ISBN 1-55750-659-0, p. 151.
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