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Saturday, 23 July 2016

Turkish central battery ironclad Massudieh [Mesudiye] according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens 1875 no. 11


Armament consisted of 12-10” Armstrong guns and 2-7”Armstrong guns. Horsepower 1.200nhp. Dimensions 350 x 59 x 25 (fore)-26 (aft) feet and 5.349 tons tonnage. Being built at Thames Iron Works and Shipbuilding Company, Blackwall, England. Crew was to number 640 men.