The Feth-i Bülend was torpedoed and sunk by the Greek Torpedo-boat No.11 in Salonika harbour on 31st October 1912. No.11 was one of six vessels that had been built at the Vulcan shipyard in Stettin, Germany, for the Greek navy, and she had been commissioned in 1885.
A model of Torpedo-boat No.11.
Her characteristics were:
- Displacement: 85 tons
- Dimensions:
- Length: 37.5m (123ft)
- Beam: 4.66m (15ft 4in)
- Draught: 1.65m (4ft 5in)
- Propulsion: A locomotive boiler providing steam to a vertical compound steam engine (1,000ihp) driving a single propellor
- Speed: 18 knots
- Complement: 20
- Armament: 1 x 57mm (3-pounder) Hotchkiss quick-firing guns; 2 x 14-inch (356mm) bow torpedo tubes; 1 x 14-inch (356mm) trainable torpedo tube
Torpedo-boat No.11 was wrecked near Mudros Bay on 13th April 1913.
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