 Aziziye in Golden Horn
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| History | |
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 Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Aziziye |
| Namesake | Abdülaziz |
| Builder | Robert Napier and Sons |
| Laid down | 1863 |
| Launched | January 1865 |
| Commissioned | August 1865 |
| Decommissioned | 31 July 1909 |
| Fate | Broken up, 1923 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class and type | Osmaniye class |
| Displacement | 6,400 metric tons (6,300 long tons; 7,100 short tons) |
| Length | 91.4 m (299 ft 10 in) (loa) |
| Beam | 16.9 m (55 ft 5 in) |
| Draft | 7.9 m (25 ft 11 in) |
| Installed power | 6 × box boilers |
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| Speed | 13.5 knots (25.0 km/h; 15.5 mph) |
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Aziziye, named for Sultan Abdülaziz, was the second of four Osmaniye-class ironclad warships built for the Ottoman Navy in the 1860s. The ship was laid down at the Robert Napier and Sons shipyard in 1863, was launched in January 1865 and was commissioned in August that year. A broadside ironclad, Aziziye carried a battery of fourteen 203 mm (8 in) RML Armstrong guns and ten 36-pounder Armstrongs in a traditional broadside arrangement, with a single 229 mm (9 in) RML as a chase gun. Among the more powerful of Ottoman ironclads, the Navy decided to keep the ship safely in the Mediterranean Sea during the Russo-Turkish War of 1877–1878 to preserve the vessel. She spent the 1880s out of service, though she was heavily rebuilt in the early 1890s and converted into a more modern barbette ship. She was nevertheless in poor condition by the time of the Greco-Turkish War in 1897, as a result saw no action, and was disarmed after the war. She saw no further active service, being used briefly as a barracks ship from 1904 to 1909. In 1923, she was sold to ship breakers and dismantled.