 Nusret in Tarsus | |
| History | |
|---|---|
 Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Nusret |
| Builder | Schiffs & Maschinenbau AG Germania,Kiel,German Empire |
| Laid down | 1911 |
| Launched | 4 December 1911 |
| Commissioned | 1913 |
| Decommissioned | October 1918 and laid up |
 Turkey | |
| Name | Nusret (1922),Yardım (1937),Nusret (1939),Kaptan Nusret (1966) |
| Decommissioned | 1955 and laid up at Gölcük, for conversion to museum ship |
| Reclassified | Diver vessel (1937), tender (1939) |
| Refit | Sold 1962 to commercial interests and rebuilt 1962-1966 to general cargo motorship |
| Fate | April 1989 capsized nearMersin, 1999 salvaged, 2003 memorial/museum ship |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Minelayer |
| Displacement | 365 t |
| Length | 40.20 m (131 ft 11 in) (LPP) |
| Beam | 7.50 m (24 ft 7 in) |
| Depth | 3.40 m (11 ft 2 in) |
| Installed power | 1200ihp |
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40°8′55.93″N26°23′55.39″E / 40.1488694°N 26.3987194°E /40.1488694; 26.3987194Nusret was a naval ship of theOttoman Navy, which served as aminelayer during theGallipoli Campaign, and later fulfilled various roles in theTurkish Navy; as minelayer (1927–1937), diver vessel (1937–1939) andtender (1939–1955). She was laid down in 1911 and launched from Schiff & Maschinenbau AG 'Germania' atKiel,Germany on 4 December of that year.[1]
Nusret was 40.2 meters long and displaced 365 tons. Her beam was 7.57 meters and her draught was 3.4 meters. Her propulsion was two vertical triple expansion steam engines powered by two Schultz boilers, driving twin screws. This system was designed to propel her at 15 knots, but when she arrived at Istanbul in 1913 she could only make 13 knots. She was designed on the basis of atugboat, but with mine rails for forty mines on the stern instead of bollards and winches. A crane was mounted on the back end of her superstructure, aft of the funnel, to assist in loading the mines. Aside from the mines, her armament consisted of two 47mm SK L/45 C/99 quick-firing guns mounted on platforms on either side of the bridge, manufactured by Krupp in Germany. In 1927 these guns were replaced by 57mm variants of the same weapon; also in 1927 her mine rails were extended to hold twenty extra mines.
Nusret was commissioned into the Ottoman Navy in 1913, captained by Lieutenant Tophaneli Hakki (Güverte Kıdemli Yüzbaşı Tophaneli İbrahim oğlu Hakkı) under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Geehl.[citation needed]Nusret played a pivotal role in theDardanelles Campaign, laying 26 mines in an unexpected position in February 1915 just prior to the ill-fated invasion which sankHMS Irresistible,HMS Ocean, and the French battleshipBouvet and left the British battlecruiserHMS Inflexible badly damaged.[2]
AfterWorld War I,Nusret was laid up in Istanbul until 1926-7 when she was refitted at Gölcük. In 1937, she became the diving vesselYardin and, in 1939, reverted toNusret as a tender. In 1955, she was decommissioned and again laid up, with the intention to convert her to a museum ship. However, in 1962, she was sold to commercial buyers who had her converted to a cargo motorship, unrecognisable as the former minelayer, entering service asKaptan Nusret in 1966. In April 1989, she sank near Mersin Harbour and lay submerged for 10 years.[1]
In 2002, the wreck ofNusret was acquired by the Municipality ofTarsus,Mersin Province for reconstruction ashore as amuseum ship, opened in 2008.[3]
A replicaNusret has been built by the Gölcük Naval Shipyard to be displayed inÇanakkale by the shore of the Narrows of theDardanelles along with the types of mines that it laid in World War I. In March 2011, thisNusret was commissioned into the Turkish Navy as the museum ship N-16.[4][5]