| 词条 | Ottoman ironclad Aziziye | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Aziziye, named for Sultan Abdülaziz,[1] was the second of four {{sclass-|Osmaniye|ironclad|0}} ironclad warships built for the Ottoman Navy in the 1860s. The ship was laid down at the Robert Napier and Sons shipyard in 1863, was launched in January 1865 and was commissioned in August that year. A broadside ironclad, Aziziye carried a battery of fourteen {{convert|203|mm|abbr=on}} RML Armstrong guns and ten 36-pounder Armstrongs in a traditional broadside arrangement, with a single {{convert|229|mm|abbr=on}} RML as a chase gun. Among the more powerful of Ottoman ironclads, the Navy decided to keep the ship safely in the Mediterranean Sea during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 to preserve the vessel. She spent the 1880s out of service, though she was heavily rebuilt in the early 1890s and converted into a more modern barbette ship. She was nevertheless in poor condition by the time of the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, as a result saw no action, and was disarmed after the war. She saw no further active service, being used briefly as a barracks ship from 1904 to 1909. In 1923, she was sold to ship breakers and dismantled. Design{{main|Osmaniye-class ironclad}}Aziziye was {{convert|91.4|m|ftin|abbr=on}} long overall, with a beam of {{convert|16.9|m|ftin|abbr=on}} and a draft of {{convert|7.9|m|ftin|abbr=on}}. The hull was constructed with iron, incorporated a ram bow, and displaced {{convert|6400|MT|sp=us}} normally and {{convert|4211|MT|abbr=on}} BOM. She had a crew of 26 officers and 335 enlisted men as completed, but only 250 after 1894.[2][3]The ship was powered by a single horizontal compound engine which drove one screw propeller. Steam was provided by six coal-fired box boilers that were trunked into a single, retractable funnel amidships. The engine produced a top speed of {{convert|13.5|kn|lk=in}} on sea trials, though by 1891, decades of poor maintenance had reduced the ship's speed to {{convert|6|kn}}. Aziziye carried {{convert|750|MT|abbr=on}} of coal. A supplementary barque rig with three masts was also fitted.[2][3] The ship was armed with a battery of one {{convert|229|mm|abbr=on}} rifled muzzle-loading (RML) Armstrong gun and fourteen {{convert|203|mm|abbr=on}} RML Armstrongs. These were supplemented with ten 36-pounder guns, which were also manufactured by Armstrong. The 229 mm gun was placed on the upper deck, forward, and the rest of the guns were mounted on each broadside. The ship's wrought iron armored belt was {{convert|5.5|in|mm|abbr=on|order=flip|0}} thick, and was capped with {{convert|3|in|mm|abbr=on|order=flip|0}} thick transverse bulkhead at either end. Above the belt were strakes of armor {{convert|5|in|mm|abbr=on|order=flip|0}} thick that protected the battery, transverse bulkheads {{convert|4.5|in|mm|abbr=on|order=flip|0}} connected the battery armor.[2][3] Service historyAziziye was ordered in 1862, originally under the name Abdül Aziz. She was laid down at the Robert Napier and Sons shipyard in Glasgow in May 1863. She was launched in January 1865 under her original name, but by the time she was commissioned into the fleet in August that year, she had been renamed Aziziye.[4]The Ottoman fleet began mobilizing in September 1876 to prepare for a conflict with Russia, as tensions with the country had been growing for several years, an insurrection had begun in Ottoman Bosnia in mid-1875, and Serbia had declared war on the Ottoman Empire in July 1876.[9] At the start of 1877, the ship was assigned to the 2nd Division of the Mediterranean Fleet, based in Crete, along with the ironclads {{ship|Ottoman ironclad|Mukaddeme-i Hayir||2}} and {{ship|Ottoman ironclad|Iclaliye||2}}.[10] The Russo-Turkish War began on 24 April 1877 with a Russian declaration of war,[5] but unlike many of the other, smaller Ottoman ironclads, Aziziye and her sister ships remained in the Mediterranean Fleet.[6] The Navy feared losing the largest ships of its fleet, and so kept them primarily in port for the duration of the conflict.[7] The wooden warships of the Mediterranean Fleet sortied in April 1877 to patrol the coast of Albania, but Aziziye and the rest of the ironclads remained in Souda Bay.[8] After the conclusion of the war in 1878, Aziziye was laid up in Constantinople. In 1884, the 36-pounder gun were removed and a light battery of four {{convert|47|mm|abbr=on}} quick-firing (QF) Hotchkiss guns and two 4-barreled {{convert|25.4|mm|abbr=on}} Nordenfelt guns were added. She was refitted at the Imperial Arsenal, with work lasting from 1890 to 1894. During the refit, she received two vertical triple-expansion engines in place of her original machinery, and six coal-fired Scotch marine boilers replaced the box boilers; the new propulsion system allowed her to steam at a speed of {{convert|10|kn}}. Her armament was radically revised; all of the old muzzle-loaders were removed and a battery of new Krupp breech-loading guns were installed. Two Krupp {{convert|240|mm|abbr=on}} K L/35 guns were added in individual barbettes, one forward and one aft. Eight {{convert|150|mm|abbr=on}} L/25 Krupp guns and six {{convert|105|mm|abbr=on}} L/25 Krupp guns were installed on the broadside. Two of the 47 mm guns were removed and three more Nordenfelt guns were added.[3] With the outbreak of the Greco-Turkish War in February 1897, Aziziye was mobilized into the 1st Squadron. On 19 March, Aziziye and the ironclads {{ship|Ottoman ironclad|Mesudiye||2}}, {{ship|Ottoman ironclad|Hamidiye||2}}, and {{ship|Ottoman ironclad|Necm-i Şevket||2}} and three torpedo boats departed the Golden Horn, bound for the Dardanelles. The squadron stopped off Lapseki on 22 March, having lost two of the torpedo boats to unseaworthiness. The Ottomans inspected the fleet and found that almost all of the vessels, including Aziziye, to be completely unfit for combat against the Greek Navy, which possessed the three modern {{sclass-|Hydra|ironclad|1}}s.[9][10] Despite the fact that Aziziye and her sisters had been refit just three years previously, the inspectors discovered that many of the pistons on their Krupp guns were bent, rendering the guns useless. Worse, the breeches for Aziziye{{'}}s 240 mm guns were left at the Imperial Arsenal.[11] Through April and May, the Ottoman fleet made several sorties into the Aegean Sea in an attempt to raise morale among the ships' crews, though the Ottomans had no intention of attacking Greek forces. During this period, she, the ironclad {{ship|Ottoman ironclad|Necm-i Şevket||2}}, and the river monitor {{ship|Ottoman monitor|Hizber||2}} escorted troop transports from western Anatolia to Gelibolu, though their presence was simply for show. While on this duty, the ships conducted gunnery training outside the Bosporus. On 15 May, Aziziye and the ironclads Mesudiye, Necm-i Şevket, {{ship|Ottoman ironclad|Osmaniye||2}}, and Hamidiye, along with several other vessels conducted a major training exercise, where severe deficiencies in the level of training were revealed, particularly with the men's ability to operate the ships' guns.[12] The condition of the Ottoman fleet could not be concealed from foreign observers, particularly the British Admiral Henry Wood and the German Admiral Eugen Kalau vom Hofe, who led the inspection. The fleet proved to be an embarrassment for the government and finally forced Sultan Abdul Hamid II to authorize a modernization program, which recommended that the ironclads be modernized in foreign shipyards. German firms, including Krupp, Schichau-Werke, and AG Vulcan, were to rebuild the ships, but after having surveyed the ships, withdrew from the project in December 1897 owing to the impracticality of modernizing the ships and the inability of the Ottoman government to pay for the work due to its weak finances. Following a lengthy process of negotiations, Krupp received the contract to rebuild Aziziye on 11 August 1900, along with several other warships. By December 1902, however, Krupp withdrew from the deal, and Aziziye was ultimately not reconstructed. She became a barracks ship in 1904, based in Kasımpaşa. On 31 July 1909, she was decommissioned, but remained in the Navy's inventory until 1923 when she was broken up.[13] Notes1. ^Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 197 2. ^1 2 Gardiner, p. 389 3. ^1 2 3 Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 133 4. ^Gardiner, p. 389 5. ^1 Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 5 6. ^1 Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 194 7. ^Sondhaus, p. 90 8. ^Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 6 9. ^Langensiepen & Güleryüz, pp. 8, 194 10. ^Gardiner, p. 387 11. ^Langensiepen & Güleryüz, p. 9 12. ^Langensiepen & Güleryüz, pp. 8–9 13. ^Langensiepen & Güleryüz, pp. 9–10, 133 References
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