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    SHIPS OF THE GOLDEN HORN

    Aug 28, 2020 4 minutes

    Turkey has a long and proud maritime heritage, said to stretch back in the steam age to 1827, when the steamer Bug (Moldavia) was purchased by the Ottoman Empire. Her engineering was eventually copied to produce Turkey’s first domestically built steamers over the next decade. These early privately owned ferries were used to operate services across the Bosphorus into the 1840s and led to the establishment of a state ferry company by a decree of Ottoman Sultan Abdülmecid in 1851.

    Thereafter, a set of six paddlewheel steamers was ordered from the Robert White shipyard in England and used to inaugurate services across the Bosphorus and along the shores of the Golden Horn.

    These were the first vessels in what, which was renamed and later became .

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