Tinaztepe class destroyer

Class overview
Builders: C.T. Riva Trigoso, Italy
Operators:  Turkish Navy
Preceded by: Adatepe class destroyer
Built: 1930-32
In commission: 1931-54
Completed: 2
Retired: 2
Scrapped: 2
General characteristics
Type: Destroyer
Displacement: 1225 tonnes standard, 1635 tonnes full load
Length: 96 m
Beam: 9.3 m
Draught: 3.28 m
Propulsion: 2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft type boilers, 35,000 hp
Speed: 36 knots
Range: 3,500 nm at 15 knots
Complement: 149
Armament: 4 - 120mm guns (2x2)
2 - 40mm AA guns
2 machine guns
6 - 533mm torpedo tubes (2x3)

The Tinaztepe class were two destroyers built in Italy for the Turkish Navy in the 1930s.

These ships were versions of the contemporary Italian Folgore class destroyer or Freccia class destroyer[1] and were purchased while being built for the Italian Navy. In contrast with other Italian destroyers built for export they had their main armament mounted in two twin turrets.

Ships

Ship Builder Launched Commissioned Decommissioned
Tınaztepe C.T. Riva Trigoso, Riva Trigoso 27 July 1931 6 June 1932 February 1954
Zafer C.T. Riva Trigoso, Riva Trigoso 30 September 1931 6 June 1932 February 1954

References

  1. ^ Robert Gardiner, Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships, 1922-1946, Naval Institute Press, 1980, p. 407.