TCG Bozcaada (F-500)

History
Fransa
Name: F787 Commandant de Pimodan
Laid down: 1977
Launched: 1978
Fate: Transfer to the Turkish Navy in 2001
Türkiye
Name: TCG Bozcaada (F-500)
Namesake: Bozcaada
In service: 2001
General characteristics
Class and type: Burak-class
Displacement: 1,100 tonnes
Length: 80 m (260 ft)
Height: 10.3 m (34 ft)
Depth: 5.3 m (17 ft)
Propulsion:
  • Engines : 2 diesel SEMT Pielstick 12PC2V400
  • Power: 12,000 shp (8.9 MW)
  • Propellers: 2 4-bladed orientable propellers
  • Electrical power: 840 kW (2 DA x 320 + 1 DA x 200)
Speed: 24 knots
Range:
  • 4,500 nautical miles (8,330 km) @ 15 knots
  • 3,000 nautical miles (5,560 km) @ 158 knots
Complement: 104 including 10 officers, 46 petty officers, 9 specials, 39 enlisted
Electronic warfare
& decoys:
  • 1 × Thale DRBV-51A air/surface search radar
  • 1 × Thale DRBC-32E fire contro radar
  • 1 × Decca 1226 navigation radar
Armament:

TCG Bozcaada (F-500) is the lead ship of the six Burak class ASW corvettes of the Turkish Navy. She was named after Bozcaada Island, which is in the northern part of the Aegean Sea. Bozcaada is an ex-D'Estienne d'Orves class A69 type Aviso warship.

Service history

The ship was built in 1978 in France and served as F787 Commandant de Pimodan in the French Navy. She was transferred to the Turkish Navy in 2001.[1]

On August 2, 2012, she was tasked to escort the Turkish cargo vessel MV Dadalı on the first leg of her voyage to Somalia from Port of Mersin to Suez Port in eastern Mediterranean Sea. The cargo ship carried aid materials dispatched by the Turkish Red Crescent to Somalia, which was drought stricken as a result of the 2011 East Africa drought. S was escorted following her passage after Suez Canal by TCG Gemlik (F-492).[2]

References

  1. ↑ "d'Estienne d'Orves class". Helicopter History Site. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
  2. ↑ "Kızılay'ın insani yardım gemisini haydutlardan Gemlik savaş gemisi korudu". F5 Haber (in Turkish). 2012-08-27. Retrieved 2013-09-28.
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