Post by ukron on Jan 7, 2022 1:56:51 GMT
Beginning of the 20th century and the march to Dreadnought begins, the Ottoman Empire, which has just suffered many internal and external problems, understood (but much too late)why having battleship fleets is important: it must be said that the last Capital Ships developed by the Ottoman Empire dates from the 1870s and that Sultan Hamid II (installed on the throne in 1876) did everything to limit the growing influence of the Navy in the affairs of the Sublime Porte.
But now the British and the Greeks are putting into service much more modern and armored ships (Sovereign class and Hydra class) at the gates of Istanbul !. 1890 and the Ottoman Empire decides to equip itself with 2 French designed battleships (Hoche class), the project fails but provides the ingenious Turks with valuable knowledge, necessary for the creation of a local pre-dreadnought class: the Abdül Kadir.
Laid down in 1892, the Abdül Kadir will suffer from enormous delays and lack of designs: if the shielding is substantial enough for the time (230mm), the three steam boilers (expansion) and the propeller are built with difficulty in the imperial arsenal (Tersane-i Amire), a draft estimated at 8000 tons for a speed of 33km / h.
The choice of armament is indicative of the foreign policy led by the Sublime Porte which is oriented very logically towards the Germans from Krupp (2 guns of 283mm MRK L-35 the same as the Brandeburg classes, 6 guns of 15cm SK L-35 and 8 SK L-30 8.8 cam guns) + 6 torpedo tubes.
But the revealing failures of the Turkish Navy against the Greeks in 1897, and an increasingly limited budget led on the one hand to a revision of the armament (we went from 283mm guns to 203mm guns) and to an anarchic construction (in 1906, only part of the hull was installed).
Abandoned in 1906, the project stopped in 1909.
1 year later, the Ottoman Navy turned definitively towards German industry by purchasing two Brandeburg classes.
But now the British and the Greeks are putting into service much more modern and armored ships (Sovereign class and Hydra class) at the gates of Istanbul !. 1890 and the Ottoman Empire decides to equip itself with 2 French designed battleships (Hoche class), the project fails but provides the ingenious Turks with valuable knowledge, necessary for the creation of a local pre-dreadnought class: the Abdül Kadir.
Laid down in 1892, the Abdül Kadir will suffer from enormous delays and lack of designs: if the shielding is substantial enough for the time (230mm), the three steam boilers (expansion) and the propeller are built with difficulty in the imperial arsenal (Tersane-i Amire), a draft estimated at 8000 tons for a speed of 33km / h.
The choice of armament is indicative of the foreign policy led by the Sublime Porte which is oriented very logically towards the Germans from Krupp (2 guns of 283mm MRK L-35 the same as the Brandeburg classes, 6 guns of 15cm SK L-35 and 8 SK L-30 8.8 cam guns) + 6 torpedo tubes.
But the revealing failures of the Turkish Navy against the Greeks in 1897, and an increasingly limited budget led on the one hand to a revision of the armament (we went from 283mm guns to 203mm guns) and to an anarchic construction (in 1906, only part of the hull was installed).
Abandoned in 1906, the project stopped in 1909.
1 year later, the Ottoman Navy turned definitively towards German industry by purchasing two Brandeburg classes.
