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Friday 23 March 2018

Spanish built Turkish submarine (ex-E-1) Gür brought towards Turkey according to the Dutch magazine Marineblad dated 1935 no. 4

An item referred to the Revista Marittime dated May 1935 reporting that the submarine E 1 bought by Turkey was built using German plans and brought to Turkey by a German crew and further more 2 Turkish officers.(1)

Note
1. The Gür, laid down by Echivarrieta y Larrinaga, Cadiz, Spain as a speculative project in March 1929, launched on 22 October 1930, completed in December 1934 and stricken in 1947. Project Pu111 designed by Ingenieurskantoor voor Scheepsbouw, The Hague, Netherlands.