Samsun

Samsun was one of the four s purchased by the Ottoman Empire from France in 1907. The ship served in the Ottoman Navy during the Italo-Turkish War, the Balkan Wars and World War I. During the Italo-Turkish war, she did not take part in any active engagement with the Italians like the rest of the Ottoman Navy. In October 1914, she participated in the Black Sea Raid that led to the Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I. Throughout the war, she took part in many missions including patrols, escorting convoys against Allied submarines in the Sea of Marmara, escorting the fleet's battleships, and minesweeping at the entrance of the Bosphorus. In 1918, she inspected the interned Imperial Russian Navy. The destroyer, which served in the navy during the Republican period, was decommissioned in 1932 and scrapped in 1949. Design Built at Bordeaux by SA Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, Samsun was long between the perpendiculars and in long overall, with a beam of and a draft of . The displacement of the ship was . Her crew consisted of 7 officers and 60 sailors when she was built in 1907. The ship was powered by two vertical triple-expansion steam engines, fed by steam from two Normand boilers built by SA Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde. The engines produced and could accelerate the ship to in 1907. The ship's speed dropped to in 1912 and in 1915. The ship could carry 60 tons of coal.