Ottoman ironclad Lüft-ü Celil
Illustration of Lüft-ü Celil
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 Ottoman Empire
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| Name: | Lüft-ü Celil |
| Namesake: | "Divine Grace" |
| Ordered: | 1867 |
| Builder: | Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde |
| Laid down: | 1868 |
| Launched: | 1869 |
| Commissioned: | March 1870 |
| Fate: | Sunk by Russian artillery, 11 May 1877 |
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| Class and type: | Lüft-ü Celil class |
| Displacement: | 2,540 t (2,500 long tons; 2,800 short tons) |
| Length: | 64.4 m (211 ft 3 in) (loa) |
| Beam: | 13.6 m (44 ft 7 in) |
| Draft: | 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) |
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| Speed: | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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Lüft-ü Celil (Ottoman Turkish: Divine Grace) was an ironclad warship of the Ottoman Navy, the lead ship of the Lüft-ü Celil class. Originally ordered by the Khedivate of Egypt, an autonomous vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, the central Ottoman government forced Egypt to surrender Lüft-ü Celil while she was still under construction at the French Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde shipyard. Lüft-ü Celil saw action during the Russo-Turkish War in 1877, where she operated on the Danube to try to prevent Russian forces from crossing the river. While on patrol on 11 May, she engaged a Russian artillery battery that scored a hit on the ship's boiler room, causing an explosion that destroyed the ship and killed most of her crew.
Lüft-ü Celil was 64.4 m (211 ft 3 in) long overall, with a beam of 13.6 m (44 ft 7 in) and a draft of 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in). The hull was constructed with iron, incorporated ram bow, and displaced 2,540 metric tons (2,500 long tons; 2,800 short tons) normally and 1,741 t (1,714 long tons; 1,919 short tons) BOM. She had a crew of 12 officers and 110 enlisted men.
The ship was powered by a single horizontal compound steam engine which drove two screw propellers. Steam was provided by two coal-fired locomotive boilers that were trunked into a single funnel amidships. The engine was rated at 2,000 indicated horsepower (1,500 kW) and produced a top speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph), though by 1877 she was only capable of 10 kn (19 km/h; 12 mph). Lüft-ü Celil carried 300 t (300 long tons; 330 short tons) of coal. A supplementary barque rig was also fitted.
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