Ottoman destroyer tender Tirimüjgan
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Tirimüjgan, formerly Pembroke Castle, was a cargo ship launched in 1883 and purchased by the Ottoman Empire from the United Kingdom in 1906, requisitioned as a destroyer tender and used in the Italo-Turkish War, Balkan Wars and served during World War I.
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Tirimüjgan | |
History | |
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United Kingdom | |
Name | Pembroke Castle |
Owner | Union-Castle Line |
Port of registry | London |
Ordered | 1882 |
Builder | Barrow Shipbuilding Co., Barrow-in-Furness[1] |
Laid down | 1883 |
Launched | May 1883 |
Fate | Purchased by İdare-i Mahsusa, 1906 |
Ottoman Empire | |
Name | Tirimüjgan |
Namesake | Tirimüjgan Kadın |
Acquired | 1906 |
Commissioned | 1908 |
Fate | Ran aground off Cape Bafra at the mouth of the Kızılırmak River, 31 March 1920 |
General characteristics | |
Type | Destroyer tender |
Tonnage | 4,045 GRT |
Length | 121.8 m (399 ft 7 in) |
Beam | 12.9 m (42 ft 4 in) |
Draft | 6.5 m (21 ft 4 in) |
Installed power | |
Propulsion | 1 shaft |
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