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Saturday 17 October 2020

Turkey ordering newbuilding of inland patrol vessels in the United Kingdom according to the magazine Mitteilungen aus dem Gebiete des Seewesens dated 1911 No. 3

An item reported that the general governor of Bagdad, Turkey ordered by the British firm Thornycroft 2 motor patrol vessels to serve on the rivers Euphrat and Tigris. Length 21,3 metres. Fitted out with Yarrow-Napier combustion engines and 2 crews achieving during a hours trials a speed of respectively 12,77 and 13,46 knots, de contacted speed was 12 knots.

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