TCG Sultanhisar (P-111)
| History | |
|---|---|
 Turkey
| |
| Name: | TCG Sultanhisar (P-111) |
| Namesake: | Sultanhisar |
| Owner: | Turkish Navy |
| Operator: | Escort and Patrol Fleet Command |
| Builder: | Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp. in Portland, Oregon, USA[1] |
| Completed: | 1963 |
| Acquired: | May 9, 1964[1] |
| Commissioned: | January 25, 1965 |
| Decommissioned: | June 3, 2002 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type: | Patrol boat |
| Displacement: | 295 tons (full load)[2] |
| Length: | 175 ft (53 m)[2] |
| Beam: | 23 ft (7.0 m)[2] |
| Draft: | 10 ft 10 in (3.30 m)[2] |
| Propulsion: | 2 2,400hp ALCO 169X 10AT diesel engines, 2 shafts[2] |
| Speed: | 20 knots (37 km/h)[2] |
| Complement: | 59[2] |
| Armament: | 1 Mk 15 ASW Hedgehog mortar, 1 single 40mm gun mount; 3 20mm guns, 2 rocket launchers, 4 depth charge projectiles and 2 depth charge tracks[2] |
TCG Sultanhisar (P-111), ex-USS PC-1638, was a Hisar-class patrol boat of the Turkish Navy. She was built in 1963 by Gunderson Brothers Engineering Corp. in Portland, Oregon as a submarine chaser.[2][3]
The vessel was transferred on May 9, 1964[1][4] along with two other boats of the same class to Turkey. Three other ships of the class followed the next year.[5] Commissioned on January 25, 1965,[6] the Sultanhisar was stationed at the Gölcük Naval Base together with other Hisar-class patrol boats, before they were deployed in 1977 to the naval base in Izmir.[3]
Sultanhisar was decommissioned on June 3, 2002[6] as Burak-class corvettes entered service.[3]
TCG Sultanhisar (P-111) was the third ship of the Turkish Navy to have the name, following the destroyer TCG Sultanhisar and the torpedo boat Sultanhisar.[6]
References
- 1 2 3 "Gunderson Marine, Portland OR". Shipbuilding History. 2010-12-07. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 "Submarine Chaser Photo Archive PC-1638". NavSource Online. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- 1 2 3 "Refakat ve Karakol Filosu Komutanlığı" (in Turkish). Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- ↑ "Gunboats Transferred Since WWII". Gunboats and OPVs Transferred Foreign. 2010-07-21. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- ↑ "Turkish Navy / Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri - Ships". Sea Forces. Retrieved 2011-03-30.
- 1 2 3 "Deniz kuvvetlerinde sistem değişikliği (System change in naval force)" (in Turkish). Belgeler. Archived from the original on May 1, 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-30.