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Ottoman cruiser Heibetnuma

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Name
  
Heibetnuma

Laid down
  
1881

Type
  
unprotected cruiser

Length
  
69 m

Weight
  
1,463 tons

Builder
  
Constantinople

Fate
  
Scrapped in 1911

Displacement
  
1463 t

Construction started
  
1881

Heibetnuma was an unprotected cruiser with a composite hull of the Ottoman Navy, laid down in 1881 at the Constantinople dockyard and completed in 1893. The ship had six rectangular boilers and carried about 280 tons of coal. The main armament was three Krupp 6.7in/25 caliber 5.6 ton breechloading guns, mounted fore and aft. The secondary guns were six Krupp 4.7in/25 BL guns in sponsons amidships.

This ship and the slightly smaller cruiser Lutfi Humayun were similar in armament and performance to the Miaoulis, an unprotected cruiser launched in 1879 for the navy of the Ottoman Empire's main naval rival, Greece. The Russian Black Sea Fleet, another threat to the Ottoman navy, included the slightly larger unprotected cruiser Pamiat Merkuria.

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Ottoman cruiser Heibetnuma Wikipedia