RE: IF ship names

At 10:49 PM -0400 10/13/99, ANDREW R APTER wrote:
>a few historical names
>AssarI-Ttewfik
>Lutfi Djelil
>These were names of Turkish ships

I typed this up for one of Tom Granvold's projects back in March. 
There are more ship names for the Turks than I've noted herein.

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Okay, here's the first batch of ironclads form "The Ottoman Steam 
Navy 1828-1923", Langensiepen & Guleryuz, Naval Institute press, 1995

Ironclads:
Osmaniye, Osman, Aziziye, Orhaniye, Mahmudiye
Fettah (not built)
Mesudiye
Mahmudiye, Hamidiye
Peyk-i Seref, Buruc-u Zafer
Asar-i Tevfik
Asar-i Sevket, Necm- Sevket
Lutf-u Celil
Hifz-ur Rahman
Avnillah, Muin-i Zafer
Feth-i Bulend
Mukaddeme-i Hayir
Iclaliye

River Monitors (much higher board than US monitors)
Feth-ul Islam, Iskodra, Bogurtlen, Podgorice, Semendire (later
Memduhiye)
Hizber, Seyft

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