DOGANAY TCG submarine

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DOGANAY TCG submarine

Post by aukepalmhof » Sat Jul 30, 2016 2:50 am

To commemorate that100 year ago the first Turkish submarine ABDUL HAMID was built in 1886, Turkey issued one stamp which not depict this submarine but one of the modern six Atilay Class submarines.
By enlarging the stamp, you can read the pennant number on the tower as S 351 which belongs to the DOGANAY.
She was built at the Gölcük Naval Shipyard at Gölcük for the Turkish Navy, she was one of the German Type 209 of which three were built in Germany and two in Turkey.
21 March 1980 laid down.
11 November 1983 launched as the TCG DOGANAY (S-351)
Displacement 1,100 ton surface, 1,285 submerged, dim 55.9 x 6,2 x 5.5m.
Powered: Diesel electric by four MTU 12V493 TY60 diesels, 2,400 hp,, four Siemens alternators 1.7 MW, one Siemens electro motor, 4,600 hp, one shaft, speed 11 knots surface and 21.5 knots submerged.
Range by a speed of 11 knots surfaced, 7,500 mile.
Diving depth 250 metre.
Armament: 8 – 533mm torpedo tubes and she carries 14 – AEG SST 4: Mk-23 torpedoes.
Crew 38
16 November 1984 commissioned.

She was the first modern submarine built in Turkey.

From 2011 till 2015 she underwent a modernization in Turkey.
2016 In service.

Turkey 1986 20L sg2929, scott2353. The photo shows her after the modernization in 2015.
Source: Internet.
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