 Osmaniye in Istanbul
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| History | |
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 Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Osmaniye |
| Namesake | Osman I |
| Builder | Robert Napier and Sons |
| Laid down | 1863 |
| Launched | 2 September 1864 |
| Commissioned | November 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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Osmaniye, named for Sultan Osman I, was the lead ship of the Osmaniye class of ironclad warships built for the Ottoman Navy in the 1860s by Robert Napier and Sons of the United Kingdom. A broadside ironclad, Osmaniye 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 out of the action 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 remained in commission until 1909 but saw no further service, and was broken up in 1923.