Ottoman minelayer Intibah

She fled out of Istanbul, brought to Izmit and placed under the command of the Ankara Government before entering the service of the Turkish Navy in October 1923 and being renamed to Uyanık.

At the end of 1997, she was caught while carrying illegal immigrants to Italy, confiscated by the Italian government and sold at auction in November 1998 before being dismantled in Crotone in June 1999.

[1] Built in Glasgow in 1886 as a large salvage tug, she was purchased by the Ottoman government on 4 March 1912 after 26 years of civilian use.

[4] She was fully converted to a minelayer in December 1914 in the Tersâne-i Âmire shipyard on the Golden Horn, she remained in this role during World War I.

[5] She laid 40 mines arranged in three separate lines between Soğanlıdere and Kepez Feneri on 15 August 1914 as a defence to intercept British ships.

[7] Nusret, which sailed from Nara Burnu at 05:00 on 8 March, laid the last 26 mines in Erenköy Bay as the 11th and final row.

Intibah entered the harbour of Palatya and once again engaged in a surface battle with E11 the following day; the submarine was forced to sail away.

[12] On 14 July 1917, while carrying coal between Zonguldak and Istanbul, she collided with an underwater object off Anadolu Karaburnu, likely a shipwreck, resulting in severe damage.

[13] Intibah took part in the salvage operations of Yavuz Sultan Selim on 20 January 1918, which was damaged by striking a mine during the Battle of Imbros and was beached on a sandbar 200 metres off Nara Burnu in the Dardanelles.

[1] In late 1922, Intibah, with the steamships Sagram, Saika, Kasım Paşa, Rehber; Haliç, Beykoz, Darıç and the yacht Galata sailed from Istanbul to Izmit.

Ottoman defences of the Dardanelles, February–March 1915