Ottoman cruiser Heibetnuma

Career (Ottoman Empire)
Name:	Heibetnuma
Builder:	Constantinople
Laid down:	1881
Fate:	Scrapped in 1911
General characteristics (as designed)
Type:	unprotected cruiser
Displacement:	1463 t
Length:	226 ft (68.9 m)
Beam:	37 ft (11.3 m)
Draft:	17 ft (5.2 m)
Propulsion:	1 shaft HTE, 2,785 ihp (2,077 kW)
Speed:	14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Armament:	3 × 1 - 6.7-inch (170 mm) guns 6 × 1 - 4.7-inch (119 mm) guns 4 × 1 - 47-millimeter (1.9 in) guns 2 × 1 - 14-inch (356 mm) torpedo tubes

Heibetnuma was an unprotected cruiser^{[citation needed]} with a composite hull of the Ottoman Navy, laid down in 1881 at the Constantinople dockyard and completed in 1893. The ship had six rectangular boilers and carried about 280 tons of coal. The main armament was three Krupp 6.7in/25 caliber 5.6 ton breechloading guns, mounted fore and aft. The secondary guns were six Krupp 4.7in/25 BL guns in sponsons amidships.^[1]

This ship and the slightly smaller cruiser Lutfi Humayun were similar in armament and performance to the Miaoulis, an unprotected cruiser launched in 1879 for the navy of the Ottoman Empire's main naval rival, Greece.^[2] The Russian Black Sea Fleet, another threat to the Ottoman navy, included the slightly larger unprotected cruiser Pamiat Merkuria.

References

1. ^ Gardiner (1979), p. 392
2. ^ Gardiner (1979), p. 387

Bibliography

• Gardiner, Robert, ed (1979). Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1860—1905. New York: Mayflower Books. ISBN 0-8317-0302-4.