History | |
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Belgium | |
Name | Selika |
Owner | Robert Osterrieth |
Launched | 1899 |
Homeport | Antwerp |
Fate | Sold |
History | |
Iran | |
Namesake | Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar |
Operator | Persian Customs |
Acquired | 1902 |
Commissioned | 1903 |
Renamed | Mozaffari |
Captured | 1914 |
History | |
United Kingdom | |
Operator | Royal Navy |
Recommissioned | 1914 |
Decommissioned | 1918 |
Refit | 1918 |
Homeport | Bombay |
Fate | Returned to Iran |
History | |
Iran | |
Operator | Imperial Iranian Navy |
Recommissioned | 1918 |
Stricken | c. 1936 |
Fate | Stricken c.1936 |
General characteristics | |
Displacement | 400 tonnes[1][2] |
Length | 40.0 m (131 ft 3 in)[2] |
Beam | 8.0 m (26 ft 3 in)[2] |
Draft | 3.5 m (11 ft 6 in)[2] |
Propulsion | Steam[2] |
Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h)[2] |
Mozaffari[3] (Persian: مظفری) was a steam yacht that was converted to a gunboat.[1] Launched in 1899 as a Belgian merchant ship, it was purchased as a royal yacht for Mozaffar ad-Din Shah Qajar and served Persian navy from 1902 to 1914; and again between 1918 and 1936. Royal Navy seized her in 1914 and used the vessel until 1918 during World War I.