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Saturday 27 August 2016

Turkish turret casemate ship Lütf i Dschelil [Lûft-i Celîl] according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens 1875 no. 11

Armament consisted of 2-9” guns, 2-90pd guns and 1-4-d Armstrong guns. Horsepower 200hp with twin screws. Tonnage 1.771 tons and as dimensions 214 x 43.2 x 9 (fore and aft) x 24 (depth feet. Turrets not of similar and hand driven with in the aft turret the smaller guns. On the fore ship armoured bulwark with fixed sledge. Armour thickness 5” on 10” teak. Bark-rigged with tripod masts. Built at Bordeaux, France in 1868. Crew numbered 122 men (included 12 officers), should be 219 men.