| History | |
|---|---|
 Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Samsun |
| Namesake | Samsun |
| Ordered | 22 January 1906 |
| Builder | SA Chantiers et Ateliers de la Gironde, Bordeaux |
| Laid down | 1906 |
| Launched | 1907 |
| Commissioned | 3 September 1907 |
| Decommissioned | 1932 |
| Fate | Scrapped, 1949 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Samsun-class destroyer |
| Displacement | 311 t (306 long tons) |
| Length | 56.3 m (184 ft 9 in) (p/p) |
| Beam | 6.3 m (20 ft 8 in) |
| Draft | 3.17 m (10 ft 5 in) |
| Depth | 4.1 m (13 ft 5 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Propulsion |
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| Speed | 28 knots (52 km/h; 32 mph) |
| Range | 2,300 nmi (4,300 km; 2,600 mi) at 10 knots (19 km/h; 12 mph) |
| Complement | 64 officers and enlisted men |
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Samsun was one of the four Durandal-class destroyers purchased by the Ottoman Empire from France in 1907. The ship served in the Ottoman Navy during the Italo-Turkish War, the Balkan Wars and World War I.
During the Italo-Turkish war, she did not take part in any active engagement with the Italians like the rest of the Ottoman Navy. In October 1914, she participated in the Black Sea Raid that led to the Ottoman Empire's entry into World War I. Throughout the war, she took part in many missions including patrols, escorting convoys against Allied submarines in the Sea of Marmara, escorting the fleet's battleships, and minesweeping at the entrance of the Bosphorus. In 1918, she inspected the interned Imperial Russian Navy. The destroyer, which served in the navy during the Republican period, was decommissioned in 1932 and scrapped in 1949.