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Saturday, 23 July 2016

Turkish Danube river monitors being built in Turkey according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens 1875 no. 11

Two monitors being built at Constantinople, Turkey. Armament consisted of one gun mounted in a rotating turret. Dimensions 140 x 30 feet. Horsepower 100 nhp. None masts. Armour thickness was to 3” with 5” cedar. A third monitor with an armament of 2 guns. Horsepower 100 nhp. Dimensions 125 x 28.5 x 10 (fore)-12 (aft) feet and a tonnage of 404 tons. None masts. Al three to serve on the Danube river.