 Intibah, 1914
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| History | |
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 Scotland | |
| Name | Warren Hastings |
| Builder | Robert Duncan and Company, Glasgow |
| Yard number | 223 |
| Laid down | 1886 |
| Launched | 1886 |
| Fate | Sold to the Ottoman Empire, 4 March 1912 |
 Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Intibah |
| Acquired | 4 March 1912 |
| Reclassified | As a salvage tug, 1912 |
| Fate | Interned between October 1918 and October 1923 |
| Notes | Converted to a minelayer at Tersâne-i Âmire, December 1914 |
 Turkey | |
| Name | Uyanık |
| Acquired | October 1923 |
| Renamed | Intibah, 1933 |
| Stricken | 1958 |
| Fate |
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| General characteristics as of 1915 | |
| Class and type | minelayer/tugboat |
| Tonnage | 616 grt (1,740 m3) |
| Length | 61.2 m (200 ft 9 in) (o/a) |
| Beam | 9.1 m (29 ft 10 in) |
| Draft | 4.7 m (15 ft 5 in) |
| Installed power |
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| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
| Range | 2,720 nmi (5,040 km; 3,130 mi) at 19 knots (35 km/h; 22 mph) |
| Complement | 12 officers, 46 sailors (1915) |
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Intibah was a ship used by the Ottoman Navy as a tugboat and minelayer in World War I. Originally a civilian tugboat built in Glasgow in 1886, she was purchased by the Ottoman government in 1912 and converted into a minelayer in 1914.
During the Italo-Turkish War, the Balkan Wars and World War I, she was involved in minelaying, salvage and transport missions, especially with mines in the Dardanelles. After the Armistice of Mudros in October 1918, she was interned in Istanbul with the rest of the fleet. She fled out of Istanbul, brought to Izmit and placed under the command of the Ankara Government before entering the service of the Turkish Navy in October 1923 and being renamed to Uyanık. In 1933–34, she was rearmed in Gölcük and her old name was restored. She was commissioned as a minelayer in İzmir until 1936 and then again in Çanakkale. She was decommissioned from naval service in 1956, towed to Gölcük and sold for civilian use in 1958. Between 1959 and 1964, she was converted into a cargo ship and renamed Ararat M. Okan. At the end of 1997, she was caught while carrying illegal immigrants to Italy, confiscated by the Italian government and sold at auction in November 1998 before being dismantled in Crotone in June 1999.