 Iclaliye in the Golden Horn
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| Class overview | |
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| Name | Iclaliye class |
| Operators |  Ottoman Navy |
| Preceded by | Feth-i Bülend class |
| Succeeded by | Mesudiye |
| History | |
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| Name | Iclaliye |
| Namesake | "Glorious" |
| Builder | Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino |
| Laid down | May 1868 |
| Launched | 1869 |
| Commissioned | February 1871 |
| Decommissioned | 1928 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1928 |
| General characteristics | |
| Type | Central battery ship |
| Displacement | 2,228 metric tons (2,193 long tons) |
| Length | 66 m (216 ft 6 in) (loa) |
| Beam | 12.8 m (42 ft) |
| Draft | 4.8 m (15 ft 9 in) |
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| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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Iclaliye ("Glorious") was a unique ironclad warship built for the Ottoman Navy in the late 1860s and early 1870s. She was ordered from the Austro-Hungarian shipyard Stabilimento Tecnico Triestino, was laid down in May 1868, and was completed in February 1871. The design for Iclaliye was based on the earlier Asar-i Şevket-class ironclads built in France, though she carried a slightly more powerful armament consisting of two 228 mm (9 in) Armstrong guns and three 178 mm (7 in) Armstrong guns. During the Russo-Turkish War she supported Ottoman forces fighting in the Caucasus. She spent most of the rest her career out of service, as the Ottoman Navy was allowed to languish. In 1912, the Navy activated the ancient Iclaliye to help provide artillery support to the forces defending Constantinople. She served in subsidiary roles, including as a training ship and a barracks ship, until 1928 when she was decommissioned and broken up.
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