Peyk-i Şevket (ship, 1836)
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| Overview | |
| Type | Paddle steamer |
| Shipyard |
SA Chantiers Louis Benet, La Ciotat |
| Order | 1836 |
| Keel laying | 1836 |
| Launch | April 14, 1836 |
| delivery | May 1836 |
| period of service |
May 1836 - February 1838 |
| home port | Marseille |
| 2. Period of service |
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| period of service | from February 1838 |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
465 t |
| length |
62.0 m |
| width |
7.4 m |
| Draft |
Max. 2.7 m |
| crew |
26 men; |
| drive |
British low pressure steam engine |
| Armament |
from 1839
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The Peyk-i Şevket was an Ottoman paddle steamer.
She was built by SA Chantiers Louis Benet in La Ciotat as an excursion steamer. At first it was baptized La Phocéen or La Phocéon , in memory of the Greek settlers from Phocea who are said to have founded the city of Marseille . The ship was on a cruise in the Mediterranean . It started on May 31, 1836 from its home port of Marseille, reached Genoa on June 1 , Livorno on June 4 and Civitavecchia on June 6 . Then it went to Algiers , Tunis , Valletta , Navarino , Izmir , Istanbul , Athens , Valletta, Palermo and back to Marseille. On September 22, 1836 the ship was acquired by T. Perier from Toulon .
In February 1838, Sultan Mahmud II bought the ship to expand his steamboat fleet and named it Peyk-i Şevket . In 1839 it was transferred to the Imperial Shipyard in Istanbul and equipped with two deck cannons.
literature
- Ahmet Güleryüz, Bernd Langensiepen : Osmanlı Donanması. Istanbul, March 2007, ISBN 978-9944264020 (Turkish), p. 12 and P. 159