Oruç Reis-class submarine

Class overview
Turkish submarine TCG Oruç Reis
Name:	P611/Oruç Reis
Preceded by:	U class
Succeeded by:	V class
Completed:	4
Lost:	1
Retired:	3
General characteristics
Type:	Submarine
Displacement:	624 tons standard, 683 tons full load surfaced 856 tons submerged
Length:	64 m (210 ft)
Beam:	6.81 m (22.3 ft)
Draught:	3.61 m (11.8 ft)
Propulsion:	2 shaft diesel-electric Vickers diesels - 1200 hp Electric motors - 780 hp
Speed:	13.7 knots (25.4 km/h) surfaced 8.4 knots (15.6 km/h) submerged
Range:	2,500 nautical miles (4,630 km) at 10 knots (19 km/h)
Complement:	41 men
Armament:	5 × 21 in (533 mm) torpedo tubes - 4 bow internal, 1 stern external ) 9 torpedoes 1 × 3 in (76 mm) gun 1 × 20 mm gun

The Oruç Reis class submarines were ordered by the Turkish Navy from the British company Vickers in 1939. They were similar to the British S class submarines, but slightly smaller. They had the S class machinery but only four bow torpedo tubes. The four boats were requisitioned by the Royal Navy on the outbreak of World War II and fought in the British fleet as the P611 class. Two submarines were delivered to the Turks in 1942 in order to bolster Turkish strength against the threat from Nazi Germany and the remaining surviving submarine was delivered to the Turkish navy after the end of the war in 1945. The three Turkish boats were scrapped in 1957.

The P614 and P615 appear in the film We Dive at Dawn as HMS Sea Tiger.

Ships

All were built by Vickers in Barrow-in-Furness.

Turkish Name	Named After	Royal Navy number	Launched	Fate
Burak Reis	Burak Reis	HMS P614	19 October 1940	Returned to Turkey 1945, Scrapped 1957
Murat Reis	Murat Reis	HMS P612	20 July 1940	Returned to Turkey May 1942, Scrapped 1957
Oruç Reis	Oruç Reis	HMS P611	19 July 1940	Returned to Turkey May 1942, Scrapped 1957
Uluç Ali Reis	Uluç Ali Reis	HMS P615	1 November 1940	Sunk by U-Boat U-123 near Sierra Leone^[1]

TCG Oruç Reis
TCG Murat Reis

References

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Oruç Reis-class submarines

Royal Navy	P611 P612 P614 P615

Turkish Navy	Burak Reis Murat Reis Oruç Reis Uluç Ali Reis

Preceded by: U class Followed by: V class List of submarines of the Royal Navy List of submarine classes of the Royal Navy List of submarines of the Turkish Navy

British naval ship classes of the Second World War

Aircraft carriers	Courageous Argus Hermes Eagle Ark Royal Illustrious Unicorn Implacable Colossus Majestic^C Audacious^C Malta^X Centaur^C

Escort carriers	Archer^AV Audacity^V Avenger^AV Attacker^A Ruler^A Activity^V Pretoria Castle^V Nairana^V

Battleships	Queen Elizabeth Revenge Nelson King George V Lion^X Vanguard^C

Battlecruisers	Renown HMS Hood

Heavy cruisers	Hawkins County York

Light cruisers	C Danae Emerald Leander Arethusa Town Dido Crown Colony Minotaur

Minelayers	Adventure Abdiel Plover Linnet Agamemnon^V Menestheus^V Port Napier^V Port Quebec^V Southern Prince^V Teviot Bank^V

Destroyer leaders	Shakespeare Scott

Destroyers	R S V & W Town^A Ambuscade Amazon A & B C & D E & F G & H I Tribal J, K & N Hunt L & M O & P Q & R S & T U & V W & Z C Battle Weapon^C G^X Daring^C,P

Frigates	River Captain^A Colony^A Loch Bay

Corvettes	Flower Castle

Sloops	24 Bridgewater Hastings Banff^A Shoreham Grimsby Kingfisher Bittern Egret Black Swan

Minesweepers	Hunt Halcyon Bangor Auk^A Algerine Cybele

Submarines	H L Odin Parthian Rainbow S River Grampus T U P611 V Amphion X XE

Coastal	Harbour Defence Motor Launch Fairmile B motor launch Motor Torpedo Boat Motor Gun Boat Steam Gun Boat

Other	Trawlers Isles Portuguese Tree Monitors Erebus Roberts Seaplane carriers Pegasus Albatross Merchant aircraft carriers Fighter catapult ships Armed merchant cruisers Ocean boarding vessels

A American built X Cancelled C Completed after the war C,P Laid down and completed after the war V Conversions

Coordinates: 6°49′N 13°09′W / 6.817°N 13.150°W / 6.817; -13.150

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