Ottoman ironclad Lütf-ü Celil
Illustration of Lütf-ü Celil | |
| History | |
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| Ottoman Empire | |
| Name | Lütf-ü Celil |
| Namesake | "Divine Grace" |
| Ordered | 1867 |
| Builder | Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde |
| Laid down | 1868 |
| Launched | 1869 |
| Commissioned | March 1870 |
| Fate | Sunk by Russian artillery, 11 May 1877 |
| General characteristics | |
| Class & type | Lütf-ü Celil class |
| Displacement | 2,540 t (2,500 long tons) |
| Length | 64.4 m (211 ft 3 in) (loa) |
| Beam | 13.6 m (44 ft 7 in) |
| Draft | 4.4 m (14 ft 5 in) |
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| Propulsion | |
| Speed | 12 knots (22 km/h; 14 mph) |
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Lütf-ü Celil (Ottoman Turkish: Divine Grace) was an ironclad warship of the Ottoman Navy, the lead ship of the Lütf-ü Celil class. Originally ordered by the Khedivate of Egypt, an autonomous vassal state of the Ottoman Empire, the central Ottoman government forced Egypt to surrender Lütf-ü Celil while she was still under construction at the French Forges et Chantiers de la Gironde shipyard. Lütf-ü Celil saw action during the first weeks of the Russo-Turkish War in 1877, where she operated on the Danube to try to prevent Russian forces from crossing the river. While on patrol on 11 May, she engaged a Russian artillery battery that scored a hit on the ship's boiler room, causing an explosion that destroyed the ship and killed most of her crew.