List of submarines of the Turkish Navy

This is a list of Turkish Navy submarines that have served from 10 July 1920^[1] to present.

Birinci İnönü class

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Birinci İnönü^[2]	IvS, Fijenoord	29 January 1927	9 June 1928	Decommissioned 1948
İkinci İnönü^[2]	IvS, Fijenoord	12 March 1927	9 June 1928	Decommissioned 1948

Dumlupınar

version of Italian Vettor Pisani-class submarine

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Dumlupınar^[2]	CRDA, Monfalcone	4 March 1931	6 November 1931	Decommissioned 1949

Sakarya

version of Italian Argonauta-class submarine

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Sakarya^[2]	CRDA, Monfalcone	5 February 1931	6 November 1931	Decommissioned 1949

Gür

German Type IA submarine

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Gür^[3]	Echevarrieta y Larrinaga, Cádiz	22 October 1930	29 December 1936	Decommissioned 1947

Ay class

Ay-class (version of German Type IXA submarine):

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
Saldıray^[3]	Germaniawerft, Kiel	23 July 1938	5 June 1939	Decommissioned 1958
Atılay^[3]	Germaniawerft, Kiel	1938	1939?	Lost 14 July 1942
Batıray^[3]	Germaniawerft, Kiel	28 September 1938	Seized by Germany: 20 September 1939, commissioned as Kriegsmarine UA	Scuttled by crew 3 May 1945^[4]
Yıldıray^[3]	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	26 August 1939	15 January 1946	Decommissioned 1958

Oruç Reis class

Oruç Reis-class submarine (version of Royal Navy S-class submarine):

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
Oruç Reis^[3]	Vickers-Armstrongs	19 July 1940 Taken over by Royal Navy as HMS P611	Delivered 9 May 1942	Discarded 1957
Murat Reis^[3]	Vickers-Armstrongs	20 July 1940 Taken over by Royal Navy as HMS P612	Delivered 25 June 1942	Discarded 1957
Burak Reis^[3]	Vickers-Armstrongs	19 October 1940 Taken over by Royal Navy as HMS P614	Delivered 19 January 1946	Discarded 1957
Uluç Ali Reis^[3]	Vickers-Armstrongs	1 November 1940 Taken over by Royal Navy as HMS P615	Lost in Royal Navy service	Sunk 18 April 1943

Ex-US Balao class (unmodified type)

Ex- US Navy Balao-class submarine:

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Birinci İnönü (S-330)^[5]	Electric Boat, Groton	25 June 1944 Ex-USS Brill (SS-330)	23 May 1948	Decommissioned 12 August 1972
TCG İkinci İnönü (S-331)^[5]	Electric Boat, Groton	7 May 1944 Ex-USS Blueback (SS-326)	23 May 1948	Decommissioned 20 November 1973
TCG Sakarya (S-332)^[5]	Electric Boat, Groton	21 May 1944 Ex-USS Boarfish (SS-327)	23 May 1948	Decommissioned 12 December 1975
TCG Çanakkale (S-333)^[5]	Electric Boat, Groton	6 August 1944 Ex-USS Bumper (SS-333)	16 November 1950	Decommissioned 4 May 1972
TCG Gür (S-334)^[5]	Electric Boat, Groton	18 June 1944 Ex-USS Chub (SS-329)	23 May 1948	Decommissioned 12 December 1975
TCG Dumlupınar (S-335)^[5]	Electric Boat, Groton	23 April 1944 Ex-USS Blower (SS-325)	16 November 1950	Sunk 4 April 1953
TCG Preveze (S-340)^[5]	Manitowoc, Manitowoc	29 August 1943 Ex-USS Guitarro (SS-363)	7 August 1954	Decommissioned 4 May 1972
TCG Cerbe (S-341)^[5]	Manitowoc, Manitowoc	24 October 1943 Ex-USS Hammerhead (SS-364)	7 August 1954	Decommissioned 4 May 1972

Ex-US Balao class (Fleet Snorkel type)

TCG Pirireis (S-343)

Ex- US Navy Balao-class submarine Fleet Snorkel type:^[6]

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Turgutreis (S-342)^[7]	Electric Boat, Groton	13 May 1943 Ex-USS Bergall (SS-320)	17 October 1958	Decommissioned 5 April 1983
TCG Pirireis (S-343)^[7]	Manitowoc, Manitowoc	9 November 1944 Ex-USS Mapiro (SS-376)	20 April 1960	Decommissioned 20 November 1973
TCG Hızırreis (S-344)^[7]	Electric Boat, Groton	17 January 1945 Ex-USS Mero (SS-378)	20 April 1960	Decommissioned 9 October 1980

Ex-US Balao class (GUPPY IA type)

Ex- US Navy Balao-class submarine GUPPY IA type:^[6]

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Dumlupınar (S-339)^[7]	Electric Boat, Groton	30 March 1944 Ex-USS Caiman (SS-323)	24 August 1972	Decommissioned 23 December 1983 Stricken 1987

Ex-US Balao class (GUPPY IIA type)

Ex- US Navy Balao-class submarine GUPPY IIA type:^[6]

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Burakreis (S-335)^[7]	Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery	28 March 1944 Ex-USS Sea Fox (SS-402)	8 August 1971	Decommissioned 1 July 1996
TCG Muratreis (S-336)^[7]	Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery	27 January 1944 Ex-USS Razorback (SS-394)	17 December 1971	8 August 2001
TCG Oruçreis (S-337)^[7]	Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery	27 October 1943 Ex-USS Pomfret (SS-391)	3 May 1972	Decommissioned 15 September 1986 Stricken 1987
TCG Preveze (S-345)^[7]	Electric Boat, Groton	17 December 1944 Ex-USS Entemedor (SS-340)	24 October 1972	Decommissioned 20 March 1986 Stricken 1987
TCG Birinci İnönü (S-346)^[7]	Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery	26 June 1944 Ex-USS Threadfin (SS-410)	24 August 1972	Decommissioned 11 August 1998

Ex-US Balao class (GUPPY III type)

Ex- US Navy Balao-class submarine GUPPY III type:^[6]

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG İkinci İnönü (S-333)^[7]	Electric Boat, Groton	10 June 1945 Ex-USS Corporal (SS-346)	12 February 1974	Decommissioned 18 October 1996
TCG Çanakkale (S-341)^[7]	Electric Boat, Groton	1 April 1945 Ex-USS Cobbler (SS-344)	12 February 1974	Decommissioned 22 January 1998

Ex-US Tench class

TCG Uluçalireis, (Rahmi M. Koç Museum, Golden Horn)

Ex- US Navy Tench-class submarine GUPPY IIA Program:^[6]

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Uluçalireis (S-338)^[7]	Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery	7 July 1944 Ex-USS Thornback (SS-418)	3 May 1972	Decommissioned 7 August 2000
TCG Cerbe (S-340)^[7]	Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery	18 August 1944 Ex-USS Trutta (SS-421)	27 May 1973	Decommissioned 23 July 1999

Ex-US Tang class

Ex- US Navy Tang-class submarine:

Name	Builder	Launched	Acquired	Fate
TCG Pirireis (S-343)^[7]	Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery	18 April 1949 Ex-USS Tang (SS-563)	30 September 1983	Decommissioned 13 August 2004
TCG Hızırreis (S-342)^[7]	Portsmouth N Yd, Kittery	20 May 1950 Ex-USS Gudgeon (SS-567)	21 March 1980	Decommissioned 31 January 2004

Atılay class

Atılay-class submarine Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Type 209/1200:

Atılay-class submarine TCG Batıray underway.

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
TCG Atılay (S-347)^[7]	Howaldtswerke, Kiel	23 October 1974	23 July 1975	Decommissioned 30 November 2016
TCG Saldıray (S-348)^[7]	Howaldtswerke, Kiel	14 February 1975	21 October 1975	Decommissioned 2014
TCG Batıray (S-349)^[7]	Howaldtswerke, Kiel	24 October 1977	20 July 1978	Active
TCG Yıldıray (S-350)^[7]	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	20 July 1979	20 July 1981	Active
TCG Doğanay (S-351)^[7]	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	16 November 1983	16 November 1985	Active
TCG Dolunay (S-352)^[7]	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	22 July 1988	21 July 1989	Active

Preveze class

S-353 TCG Preveze, a Type 209/1400 submarine of the Turkish Navy, during a NATO exercise near the Gulf of Taranto.

Preveze-class submarine Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Type 209T1/1400:

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
TCG Preveze (S-353)^[7]	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	22 November 1993	28 July 1994	Active
TCG Sakarya (S-354)^[7]	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	28 July 1994	21 December 1995	Active
TCG 18 Mart (S-355)^[7]	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	25 August 1997	28 July 1998	Active
TCG Anafartalar (S-356)^[7]	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	1 September 1998	22 July 1999	Active

Gür class

Gür-class submarine Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft Type 209T2/1400:

Name	Builder	Launched	Commissioned	Fate
TCG Gür (S-357)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	May 2002	24 July 2003	Active
TCG Çanakkale (S-358)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	September 2002	13 December 2004	Active
TCG Burakreis (S-359)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	2 September 2005	1 November 2006	Active
TCG Birinci İnönü (S-360)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	24 May 2007	27 June 2008	Active

Reis-class

Six Reis-class submarines in production. Type 214 submarines featuring an air-independent propulsion (AIP) system developed by Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH (HDW).^[8]

Name	Builder	Launched	Fate
TCG Pirireis (S-330)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard	22 December 2019	Outfiting
TCG Hızırreis (S-331)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard
TCG Muratreis (S-332)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard
TCG Aydınreis (S-333)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard
TCG Seydialireis (S-334)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard
TCG Selmanreis (S-335)	Gölcük Naval Shipyard

Sources

^ Cevat Ülkekul, "Kurtuluş Savaşı'nda Türk Denizcileri ve Cumhuriyet Bahriyesinin Kuruluşu" Archived 25 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Piri Reis Symposium, Office of Navigation of Hydrography and Oceanography. (in Turkish)
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1980, ISBN 978-0-85177-146-5, p. 407.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1980, ISBN 978-0-85177-146-5, p. 408.
^ Ramazan Sezai Aksu, "Atatürk tarafından isimlendirilen İlk Ay Sınıfı Denizaltılarımız" Archived 21 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Pusula Dergisi, Turkish Naval Academy.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, 2nd Revised edition, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995, ISBN 978-0-85177-605-7, p. 472.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Guppy submarines Archived 9 July 2012 at archive.today
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, 2nd Revised edition, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995, ISBN 978-0-85177-605-7, p. 473.
^ "Yeni Tip Denizaltı Projesi" (in Turkish). Milli Savunma. 4 September 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2019.

External links

[Cevat-1] Cevat Ülkekul, "Kurtuluş Savaşı'nda Türk Denizcileri ve Cumhuriyet Bahriyesinin Kuruluşu" Archived 25 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine, Piri Reis Symposium, Office of Navigation of Hydrography and Oceanography. (in Turkish)

[Conway1922-1946-407-2] Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1980, ISBN 978-0-85177-146-5, p. 407.

[Conway1922-1946-408-3] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ Robert Gardiner, Roger Chesneau, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1922–1946, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1980, ISBN 978-0-85177-146-5, p. 408.

[4] Ramazan Sezai Aksu, "Atatürk tarafından isimlendirilen İlk Ay Sınıfı Denizaltılarımız" Archived 21 April 2016 at the Wayback Machine, Pusula Dergisi, Turkish Naval Academy.

[Conway1947-1995-472-5] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, 2nd Revised edition, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995, ISBN 978-0-85177-605-7, p. 472.

[GUPPY-6] Guppy submarines Archived 9 July 2012 at archive.today

[Conway1947-1995-473-7] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h ⁱ ^j ^k ^l ^m ⁿ ^o ^p ^q ^r ^s ^t ^u ^v ^w ^x ^y Robert Gardiner, Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships 1947–1995, 2nd Revised edition, Conway Maritime Press, London, 1995, ISBN 978-0-85177-605-7, p. 473.

[8] "Yeni Tip Denizaltı Projesi" (in Turkish). Milli Savunma. 4 September 2018. Retrieved 23 December 2019.

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