Turkish gunboat or armoured seagoing monitor Lutfi Djelil [Lütf-ü Celil] sunk by Russian batteries near Braila in 1877

Russian officers taking of her flag. Illustrated London News dated 2 June 1877

Before the explosion.  Illustrated London News dated 2 June 1877

Lütf-ü Celil, sunk in the Danube near Izmail on 11 May 1877 by Russian gunfire when a shell entered the boiler room ans he exploded. Of her crew were around 160 men killed. Of the Lütf-ü Celil-class preceded by Asar-i-Seket-clas ironclads and succeeded by Avnillah-class ironclads. Ordered by the Khedivate  of Egypt in 1867, but the Ottoman Empire demanded that she was to be handed over on 5 June 1867, laid down by Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde, Lormont, France in 1868, transferred to the Ottoman Empire on 29 August 1868, launched in 1869, commissioned in March 1870.

Note

1. This was the so-called Russo-Turkish War (24 April 1877-3 March 1878 between the Ottoman Empire and a coalition led by the Russian Empire consisting further of Romania, Serbia and Montenegro. The latter three principalities claimed after the defeat of the Ottoman Empire their formal independence and further more became Bulgaria an autonomous state.