Peyk-i Şevket (ship, 1907)

	; Peyk-i Sevket
Overview
Type	Torpedo cruiser
units	2
Shipyard	Germania shipyard , Kiel; construction no. 126
Launch	November 15, 1906
delivery	. November 1907
Commissioning	1907-1944
Whereabouts	1948 demolition
Technical specifications
displacement	775 t (1907), 850 t (1938)
length	80.1 m between the perpendiculars
width	8.4 m
Draft	4.6 m
crew	105-145 men;
drive	4 Schulz water tube boilers; 2 expansion steam engines ; 5100 HP; 2 screws
speed	18 kn , max. 22 kn
Range	3240 nm
Armament	2 - 105 mm L / 40 Krupp rapid fire guns; 6 - 57 mm L / 40 Krupp rapid fire guns; 2 - 37 mm L / 40 Krupp rapid fire guns; 2 - machine guns; 3 - 450 mm torpedo tubes ; fixed bow tube, two movable on the sides ;
Fuel supply	240 tons of coal
Sister ship	Berk-i Satvet

The Peyk-i Şevket ( Ottoman language messenger of his majesty ) was a torpedo cruiser of the Ottoman Navy built in Germany . After the First World War , she served as Peyk , like her sister ship Berk-i Satvet , until the mid-1940s as a training ship in the new Turkish Navy .

Mission history

First war missions took place during the Italo-Turkish War 1911 to 1912, when the Peyk-i Şevket was with the Turkish flotilla in the Red Sea and was finally interned in Suez , where it remained during the First Balkan War , which was still with during the war Italy began.

During the First World War, she initially formed the 2nd (cruiser) division with her sister ship and the cruisers Hamidiye and Mecidiye . On October 27, 1914, the new Ottoman fleet commander, the German Vice Admiral Wilhelm Souchon , assembled the operational parts of the Ottoman Navy near Kilyos , north of Istanbul , in order - disguised as an exercise - to begin an offensive against the Russian fleet in the Black Sea. The commanders only found out about Souchon's plans, who wanted to attack several Russian ports at the same time, at a meeting on the flagship Yavuz Sultan Selim at sea . The Peyk-i Şevket received the order to destroy the underwater cable between Varna and Sevastopol .

On December 6th, she and her sister ship Berk-i Satvet , the battle cruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim and the small cruiser Mecidiye secured a large convoy with troops and supplies to Trabzon , which could no longer be called directly because of a Russian minefield . The unloading had to take place in Rize . Subsequently, the Peyk-i Şevket ran with the battle cruiser to Batumi , which was shelled.

On August 6, 1915, the Peyk-i Şevket was torpedoed and damaged by the British submarine E11 in the Sea of Marmara off Silivri . It was not ready for use again until 1917 and was then used as a training ship. On 31 October 1918, it was as a result of the Ottoman surrender in Istanbul launched .

In 1924 it was renamed Peyk and repaired for the Turkish Navy in Gölcük . From 1936 to 1938 Gölcuk was again modernized. The armament then consisted of two 88 mm guns and four 37 mm cannons. In 1944 the Peyk was decommissioned and finally canceled in 1954.

Re-use of the names

In 1972 and 1975 the Turkish Navy received two American Claud Jones class escort destroyers built in Turkey , the frigates TCG Berk (D 358) and TCG Peyk (D 359).

literature

Bernd Langensiepen, Ahmet Güleryüz: The Ottoman Steam Navy 1828-1923 , Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 1995, ISBN 1-55750-659-0

Web links

Commons : Peyk-i Sevket- class torpedo cruiser - collection of images, videos and audio files

Peyk-i Sevket on Turkey in the First World War
Peyk-i Sevket picture, crack and tech. Information
Image of the Peyk-i Sevket

Individual evidence

↑ Langensiepen, p. 194

[1] Langensiepen, p. 194