Hayreddin Barbarossa Warship Wreck - Barbaros Hayrettin Shipwreck:

Hayreddin Barbarossa Warship Wreck - Barbaros Hayrettin Shipwreck

Kurfurst Friedrich Wilhelm

Construction Started: Completed: Weight: Power: Size: Crew: Guns:

01/01/1890 29/04/1894 10,670 tons 10,000 hp à 16,5 knots 115,7 m * 19,5 m 568 (38 lt, 530 Privates) 4 Main Guns 280/L=40 (236 shells) 2 Main Guns 280/L=35 (116 shells) 8 Second Guns 105/L=35 (1184 Shells) 8 QF Guns 88/L=30 (2384 shells) 8 machine guns 2 landing guns 60/L 2 torpedo tubes 450 (5 torpedos)

Hayreddin Barbarossa was a Brandenberg class warship that was belonging to Germany. She has been completed in 1894 in Germany. She has been sold to Turkey in September 1910.

After the allie troops landed in the gulf of Suvla in 7th of august 1915, Hayreddin Barbarossa started her voyage to the area in order to help the Turkish troops under the command of Muzaffer from Mustafapasa with two other destroyers. The next day, the E-11 submarine under the command of Lt. Cdr. Nasimith VC on her second patrol in the sea of Marmara, sunked Hayreddin Barbarossa in the north side of the straits in a point close to Bulair. She sunked in 15 minutes with a loss of 250 sailors.

Her position is 40º 27´ N 26º 48´ E coordinates.

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