TCG Sultanhisar (P-111)

TCG Sultanhisar (P-111)
Career (Turkey)
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[1]
Completed:	1963
Acquired:	May 9, 1964[1]
Commissioned:	January 25, 1965
Decommissioned:	June 3, 2002
General characteristics
Type:	Patrol boat
Displacement:	295 tons (full load)[2]
Length:	175 ft (53 m)[2]
Beam:	23 ft (7.0 m)[2]
Draft:	10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)[2]
Propulsion:	2 2,400hp ALCO 169X 10AT diesel engines, 2 shafts[2]
Speed:	20 knots (37 km/h)[2]
Complement:	59[2]
Armament:	1 Mk 15 ASW Hedgehog mortar, 1 single 40mm gun mount; 3 20mm guns, 2 rocket launchers, 4 depth charge projectiles and 2 depth charge tracks[2]

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.^[2][3]

The vessel was transferred on May 9, 1964^[1][4] along with two other boats of the same class to Turkey. Three other ships of the class followed the next year.^[5] Commissioned on January 25, 1965,^[6] 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.^[3]

Sultanhisar was decommissioned on June 3, 2002^[6] as Burak-class corvettes entered service.^[3]

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.^[6]

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