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Sister ship İsa Reis at anchor off Southampton in July 1914.
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Ottoman Empire | |
Name | Hızır Reis |
Namesake | Hayreddin Barbarossa (Hızır Reis) |
Builder | SA Des Forges & Chantiers de la Mediterranée, Granville, France |
Laid down | 1911 |
Launched | 10 April 1912 |
Commissioned | 13 April 1914 |
Decommissioned | 1952 |
Fate | Converted to a transport ship in 1958 |
Turkey | |
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Identification | IMO number: 5103364 |
Status | Active as of 2018 |
General characteristics | |
Length | 154.19 ft (47 m) |
Beam | 7.9 m |
Draft | 1.3 m |
Hızır Reis is ship that formerly served as an gunboat of the Ottoman Empire in the First World War. The ship currently survives as the transport ship Miktat Kalkavan.
Hızır Reis was damaged by hitting a Turkish mine near Rumelikavağı on 10 January 1915. It returned to service in 1916. It was captured by the Greeks during the Occupation of Izmir on May 14, 1919 . It was returned to Turkey in 1922. The ship was converted to a minesweeper, and a stationary pilot ship in Izimiar 1948. It was decommissioned in 1952. Sold in 1958 and converted to civilian cargo ship. The ship was renamed Turgut Reis in 1959, Emin in 1960, Murat Ayanoğlu in 1981, and then Kaptan Cavit in 1982, and in October 1995 Miktat Kalkavan. As of 2018, she was still in use as a transport ship.