1890s Turkish Ottoman Navy

Central Battery Ironclad (1868-71), in service til 1928. Iclaliye or İclâliye (“Glorious”), also orthographed Idjlalieh, was an ironclad corvette ordered from STT in Austro-Hungary in 1867 by the Elayet of Egypt, but asked for by Ottoman Sultan Abdülaziz on 5 June 1867 with all other ordered Ironclads. She was laid down in May 1868, completed … Read more

Central Battery Ironclads (1868-74): Feth-i Bülend, Mukaddeme-i Hayr The Feth-i Bülend class were two armoured “corvettes” built for the Ottoman navy in the 1870s. The first was built in the United Kingdom and became a model to build the second, Mukaddeme-i Hayr, at Tersane-i Amire, Golden Horn. Their design was based on the earlier Avnillah … Read more