Adatepe-class destroyer

Turkish Navy destroyer TCG Kocatepe
Class overview
Name	Adatepe class
Builders	Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente, Italy
Operators	Turkish Navy
Preceded by	Muavenet-i Milliye class
Succeeded by	Tinaztepe class
Built	1930-31
In commission	1931-54
Completed	2
Scrapped	2
General characteristics
Type	Destroyer
Displacement	1270 tonnes standard, 1676 tonnes full load
Length	100.2 m (329 ft)
Beam	9.37 m (30.7 ft)
Draught	2.9 m (9 ft 6 in)
Propulsion	2 shaft Parsons geared steam turbines, 3 Thornycroft type boilers, 40,000 hp (30,000 kW)
Speed	36 knots (67 km/h)
Range	3,500 nmi (6,500 km; 4,000 mi) at 15 knots (28 km/h)
Complement	149
Armament	4 x 120 mm (4.7 in) guns (4 × 1) 3 x 40 mm (1.6 in) AA guns 6 x 533 mm (21 in) torpedo tubes (2 × 3)

The Adatepe class or Kocatepe class ^[1] were two destroyers built for the Turkish Navy by the Italian company Ansaldo of Genoa in 1931.

These ships were the first part of the re-armament program for the Turkish Navy, which began after the end of the Greco-Turkish War & the establishment of the Republic of Turkey.

The Adatepe class were based on the contemporary Italian Folgore class but had guns mounted in single mountings rather than the twin turrets of the Italian ships. The hulls were lengthened to accommodate this change, and the ships had two funnels rather than the single funnel used by the Italian ships.

TCG Adatepe

Ships

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Decommissioned
Kocatepe	Ansaldo, Sestri Ponente	7 February 1931	18 October 1931	February 1954
Adatepe		19 March 1931	18 October 1931	February 1954

Notes

1. Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946, Naval Institute Press, 1980, p. 407.

References

• Whitley, M.J. (1988). Destroyers of World War 2. Cassell Publishing. ISBN   1-85409-521-8.