FUAD 1865
Posted: Sun Jul 26, 2009 8:45 pm
Built as an iron hulled paddle steamer by Millwall Ironworks at Millwall, London for the Turkish Navy.
24 July 1865 launched under the name FUAD, one of the Iz-ed-din class.
Displacement 1.058 ton. Dim. 76.20 x 9.14 x 3.66m.
Powered by 300 nhp. steam engines, speed 12.5 knots.
Bunker capacity for 150-ton coal minimum.
Armament 1 – 4.7 inch and 3 – 3 inch guns.
Complement 135.
Used by the Turkish navy as a dispatch vessel.
She was discarded after 1896, and reported scrapped in 1921.
Mali 1996 320fr. sg?, scott831d.
Source: MARHST-L Ian Buxton. All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860-1905.
24 July 1865 launched under the name FUAD, one of the Iz-ed-din class.
Displacement 1.058 ton. Dim. 76.20 x 9.14 x 3.66m.
Powered by 300 nhp. steam engines, speed 12.5 knots.
Bunker capacity for 150-ton coal minimum.
Armament 1 – 4.7 inch and 3 – 3 inch guns.
Complement 135.
Used by the Turkish navy as a dispatch vessel.
She was discarded after 1896, and reported scrapped in 1921.
Mali 1996 320fr. sg?, scott831d.
Source: MARHST-L Ian Buxton. All the World’s Fighting Ships 1860-1905.