D-346 Alcitepe

Country:  Turkey

Class, [Type]: Gearing, [DD].

Builder: Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, U.S.A.

Launch date: 15 July 1946.

Commission date: 15 June 1981.

Decommission date: 1999.

Displacement ( tons ): 2.425 standard, 3.540 full load.

Dimensions ( metres ): 119 x 12,5 x 6,4

Main machinery: 4 x Babcock & Wilcox boilers, 2 x GE turbines ( 60.000 hp ).

Speed ( knots ): 33.

Range ( miles ): 6.000 at 12 knots.

Complement: 275 ( 15 officers ).

Guns: 2 x 127mm/38 ( twin ) Mk38, 2 x 76mm/50 ( twin ), 2 x Oerlikon 35mm/90 ( twin ).

Missiles:  A/S: Honeywell ASROC Mk 112 octuple launcher.

Torpedoes: 6 x 324mm tubes US Mk32 ( 2 triple ), Honeywell Mk 46 torpedoes.

Radar: Air Search: Lockheed SPS 40, E/F bands, 320km range; Surface: Raytheon SPS 10, G band; Fire Control: General Electric Mk35, I/J bands.

Sonar: Sangamo SQS 23, hull mounted, active search and attack modes, medium frequency.

Countermeasures: ESM: WLR-1, radar warning; ECM: ULQ-6, jammer.

Helicopter: 1 x AB 212 ASW ( no hangar ).

Callsign: TBON ()

Comment: Ex - USS Robert A. Owens DD 827. Transferred from the US and purchased in June 1987. Carries one rack for 9 depth charges. Removed from service in Turkish Navy in 1998.