Ottoman ironclad Mukaddeme-i Hayir

Line-drawing of the Feth-i Bülend class
History
Ottoman Empire
Name	Mukaddeme-i Hayir
Namesake	"Great Abundance"
Ordered	1868
Builder	Imperial Arsenal
Laid down	1870
Launched	28 October 1872
Commissioned	1874
Decommissioned	1923
Fate	Broken up, 1923
General characteristics
Class and type	Feth-i Bülend class
Displacement	2,762 metric tons (2,718 long tons)
Length	72 m (236 ft 3 in) (p.p.)
Beam	11.9 m (39 ft 1 in)
Draft	5.2 m (17 ft 1 in)
Installed power	3,250 ihp (2,420 kW) 6 × box boilers
Propulsion	1 × compound steam engine 1 × screw propeller
Speed	13 knots (24 km/h; 15 mph)
Complement	16 officers, 153 sailors
Armament	4 × 229 mm (9 in) Armstrong guns
Armor	Belt: 229 mm Casemate: 229 mm

Mukaddeme-i Hayir (Ottoman Turkish: Great Abundance) was the second of two Feth-i Bülend-class ironclads built for the Ottoman Navy in the 1860s. The Ottoman Navy ordered her from the Imperial Arsenal in Constantinople, and she was laid down in 1870, launched in 1872, and commissioned in 1874. She was armed with four 229 mm (9 in) guns, was powered by a single-screw compound steam engine with a top speed of 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph). The ship saw action during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878, but was laid up from 1878 to 1897. At the start of the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, the Ottoman Navy mobilized Mukaddeme-I Hayir and the rest of the ironclad fleet but found almost all of the ships to be in unusable condition. Mukaddeme-i Hayir was disarmed the following year and converted into a stationary training ship in 1911. After the outbreak of World War I in 1914, she became a barracks ship, and served in this capacity until 1923, when she was broken up.