Thursday, March 28, 2013
Rahmi M. Koç Museum
Named after its founder, an automotive Turkish tycoon, the Rahmi M. Koç Museum is a private museum located in Istanbul. The exhibits cover a wide range of subjects including engineering, maritime, aviation and more. The museum possess over 10,000 items,the biggest of which are the submarine TCG Uluçalireis and the ferry M/V Fenerbahçe.
Address: Rahmi M. Koç Museum -Hasköy Cad. No: 27 -Hasköy 34445
Istanbul, Turkey -Tel: +90 212 369 6600 -Fax: +90 212 369 6606
Email: rmkmuseum@koc.com.tr -http://www.rmk-museum.org.tr/
Latitude: 41.0415057744, Longitude: 28.9477371711
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Tuesday - Friday 10:00 – 17:00 -Saturday – Sunday and Public Holidays Closed on Mondays.
(1 October – 31 March) 10:00 – 18:00 (1 April – 30 September) 10:00 – 20:00
Entry -Adult: 12.5 tl. -Student: 6 tl. Submarine -Adult: 7 tl. -Planetarium -Adult: 2 tl.
TCG Uluçalireis Submarine. This vessel was originally built as the Tench-class US Navy Submarine USS Thornback (SS-418) at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, USA in 1944. It is more than 93m long and displaces more than 2,400 tons. The boat saw service during Second World War in the Pacific Theatre. USS Thornback (SS-418) saw service in the last months of WW II, sinking one Japanese warship and damaging another, before returning to the U.S. and being placed in the Reserve Fleet. In 1953 she was converted to the latest Guppy IIA-class specification and re-entered service in 1953 with assignments in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean. She was transferred to the Turkish Navy on 2nd July 1971, and immediately renamed TCG Uluçalireis with pennant number S-338. She then gave thirty years of service to the Republic of Turkey before finally being transferred to the care of the Rahmi M. Koç Museum in 2001.During her Turkish Navy service, TCG Uluçalireis received many awards for meritorious service, and participated in many NATO and national operations in the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Seas. On loan from the Turkish Navy.
Class: Tench Submarine
Launched: July 7, 1944
At: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Commissioned (USN): October 13, 1944
Decommissioned (USN): July 20, 1946
Modified: 1953 (Guppy IIA) at Charleston, South Carolina
Commissioned (USN): October 2, 1953 (as Guppy IIA)
Decommissioned (USN): July 2, 1971 (transferred to Turkey)
Commissioned (Turkish Navy): July 2, 1971
Decommissioned (Turkish Navy): July 31, 2000 (transferred to Rahmi M. Koç Museum) Length:(original) 311 feet, 8 inches; (Guppy IIA) 306 feet, 6 inches
Beam: 27 feet, 4 inches
Draft: 16 feet, 5 inches
Normal displacement: 1,850 tons
Armament: Ten 21-inch torpedo tubes
Malden Steam Car-The Malden Steamer was built in very small numbers in Malden, Massachusetts and gives a clear idea of how much the design of early cars owed to the horse carriage. This Malden car is one of the primal and most important parts of our collection, dates from 1898, and was obtained
from the Zimmerman Museum in Pennsylvania.
In late 2007, the 53ft (16.2m) British-built steamer Ysolt was under partial tarpaulin cover and open to wind and rain in a field by Loch Lomond in Scotland. She had not moved since the owner took her there by road in the year that Britain joined the European Economic Community: 1973.
A steam engineer tipped off Turkish boat collector Rahmi Koç that the yacht, built by Simpson, Strickland & Co of Dartmouth in 1893, was original down to her quadruple expansion, four-cylinder engine. Mr Koç bought her and this autumn she left RMK Marine after four years’ work to restore her to steam. The 20-mile (32km) passage to the Rahmi M Koç Museum under her own power might be her last, as Ysolt is now in the museum’s static display.
The Sailing Boat Which Blazed a Trail: ‘Kısmet’
Address: Rahmi M. Koç Museum -Hasköy Cad. No: 27 -Hasköy 34445
Istanbul, Turkey -Tel: +90 212 369 6600 -Fax: +90 212 369 6606
Email: rmkmuseum@koc.com.tr -http://www.rmk-museum.org.tr/
Latitude: 41.0415057744, Longitude: 28.9477371711
Google Maps, Microsoft Bing, Yahoo Maps, Mapquest
Tuesday - Friday 10:00 – 17:00 -Saturday – Sunday and Public Holidays Closed on Mondays.
(1 October – 31 March) 10:00 – 18:00 (1 April – 30 September) 10:00 – 20:00
Entry -Adult: 12.5 tl. -Student: 6 tl. Submarine -Adult: 7 tl. -Planetarium -Adult: 2 tl.
TCG Uluçalireis Submarine. This vessel was originally built as the Tench-class US Navy Submarine USS Thornback (SS-418) at Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, USA in 1944. It is more than 93m long and displaces more than 2,400 tons. The boat saw service during Second World War in the Pacific Theatre. USS Thornback (SS-418) saw service in the last months of WW II, sinking one Japanese warship and damaging another, before returning to the U.S. and being placed in the Reserve Fleet. In 1953 she was converted to the latest Guppy IIA-class specification and re-entered service in 1953 with assignments in the Atlantic, Mediterranean and Caribbean. She was transferred to the Turkish Navy on 2nd July 1971, and immediately renamed TCG Uluçalireis with pennant number S-338. She then gave thirty years of service to the Republic of Turkey before finally being transferred to the care of the Rahmi M. Koç Museum in 2001.During her Turkish Navy service, TCG Uluçalireis received many awards for meritorious service, and participated in many NATO and national operations in the Mediterranean, Aegean, Marmara and Black Seas. On loan from the Turkish Navy.
Class: Tench Submarine
Launched: July 7, 1944
At: Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire
Commissioned (USN): October 13, 1944
Decommissioned (USN): July 20, 1946
Modified: 1953 (Guppy IIA) at Charleston, South Carolina
Commissioned (USN): October 2, 1953 (as Guppy IIA)
Decommissioned (USN): July 2, 1971 (transferred to Turkey)
Commissioned (Turkish Navy): July 2, 1971
Decommissioned (Turkish Navy): July 31, 2000 (transferred to Rahmi M. Koç Museum) Length:(original) 311 feet, 8 inches; (Guppy IIA) 306 feet, 6 inches
Beam: 27 feet, 4 inches
Draft: 16 feet, 5 inches
Normal displacement: 1,850 tons
Armament: Ten 21-inch torpedo tubes
Captain Hasan Oğuz Işleyenel
The aft section of the submarine TCG Çanakkale (Balao-Class) is located on the pier alongside the TCG Uluçalireis. The torpedo tube doors and controls are all well visible: note the very thin steel of the pressure hull (3/4 inches).
B-24 Liberator “Hadley’s Harem”- is on display in the Istanbul museum
B-24 D "Hadley’s Harem" serial number 41-24311-L was produced by Consolidated in 1941.
On August 1st 1943, during a raid on the petroleum refineries in Poliesti, Romania, Hadley’s Harem was part of the US Air Force 98th Bomber Group "Pyramiders". During this historical operation, Hadley’s Harem was the first aircraft on the left flank of Colonel John R. "Killer" Kane who was heading "Flight One" as the group leader. With a crew of ten on board, their target was the Astro Romano refinery, the largest petroleum refining facility in Ploesti, code name "White Four".
While Hadley’s Harem was on its approach to the target, it was hit by an anti-aircraft shell which went through the nose section of the fuselage and exploded causing serious damage to the aircraft. Bombardier Storms died instantly as a result of chest injuries received from shrapnel fragments and Navigator Tabacoff was also wounded. The no.2 engine stopped so Engineer Page manually operated the bomb-bay thus releasing the bombs. They set off on their return journey towards Benghazi but soon realized this was not possible and changed their heading towards the British Air Base in Cyprus via Turkey. The no.3 engine stopped over Anatolia and at a position past the Taurus Mountains the oil pressure for no.1 engine began to decrease rapidly. It was now clear they were not going to reach Cyprus so they decided to land on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. The aircraft lost its last two engines near Manavgat as they were trying to land and one of its wings touched the water causing the aircraft to crash and sink rapidly. The Pilot Gilbert Hadley and Co-Pilot James Lindsey could not escape from the aircraft.
The crew who survived reached the coast by swimming. Their first medical care came from the Turkish villagers who rescued them and then they were transported to the American Hospital (Admiral Bristol) in Istanbul. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared these people "shipwrecked mariners", thus allowing them to leave freely once their treatment was completed.
Much of the airframe was salvaged in 1995 and the cockpit section, partly restored, was put on display with the help of Mr. Roy Newton, one of seven survivors of the crash. (Pilot 1st Lt Gilbert Hadley Co-pilot & Bombardier were returned to the US) Now .. The remainder of the aircraft was preserved with the help of the Turkish Air Force, and it is now possible to imagine the aircraft as it might have been more than 60 years ago.
“Attack with aggression, but always have a plan of retreat”
B-24 D "Hadley’s Harem" serial number 41-24311-L was produced by Consolidated in 1941.
On August 1st 1943, during a raid on the petroleum refineries in Poliesti, Romania, Hadley’s Harem was part of the US Air Force 98th Bomber Group "Pyramiders". During this historical operation, Hadley’s Harem was the first aircraft on the left flank of Colonel John R. "Killer" Kane who was heading "Flight One" as the group leader. With a crew of ten on board, their target was the Astro Romano refinery, the largest petroleum refining facility in Ploesti, code name "White Four".
While Hadley’s Harem was on its approach to the target, it was hit by an anti-aircraft shell which went through the nose section of the fuselage and exploded causing serious damage to the aircraft. Bombardier Storms died instantly as a result of chest injuries received from shrapnel fragments and Navigator Tabacoff was also wounded. The no.2 engine stopped so Engineer Page manually operated the bomb-bay thus releasing the bombs. They set off on their return journey towards Benghazi but soon realized this was not possible and changed their heading towards the British Air Base in Cyprus via Turkey. The no.3 engine stopped over Anatolia and at a position past the Taurus Mountains the oil pressure for no.1 engine began to decrease rapidly. It was now clear they were not going to reach Cyprus so they decided to land on Turkey's Mediterranean coast. The aircraft lost its last two engines near Manavgat as they were trying to land and one of its wings touched the water causing the aircraft to crash and sink rapidly. The Pilot Gilbert Hadley and Co-Pilot James Lindsey could not escape from the aircraft.
The crew who survived reached the coast by swimming. Their first medical care came from the Turkish villagers who rescued them and then they were transported to the American Hospital (Admiral Bristol) in Istanbul. The Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs declared these people "shipwrecked mariners", thus allowing them to leave freely once their treatment was completed.
Much of the airframe was salvaged in 1995 and the cockpit section, partly restored, was put on display with the help of Mr. Roy Newton, one of seven survivors of the crash. (Pilot 1st Lt Gilbert Hadley Co-pilot & Bombardier were returned to the US) Now .. The remainder of the aircraft was preserved with the help of the Turkish Air Force, and it is now possible to imagine the aircraft as it might have been more than 60 years ago.
“Attack with aggression, but always have a plan of retreat”
Imperial Coach of Sultan Abdulaziz
Made in Birmingham, and presented to Sultan Abdulaziz by the British company that built the first railway in Türkiye. In 1867 the Sultan used it on a European journey during which he met the Emperor Napoleon III of France, Queen Victoria, the King of Belgium, the King of Prussia, and finally the Austro-Hungarian Emperor.
from the Zimmerman Museum in Pennsylvania.
In late 2007, the 53ft (16.2m) British-built steamer Ysolt was under partial tarpaulin cover and open to wind and rain in a field by Loch Lomond in Scotland. She had not moved since the owner took her there by road in the year that Britain joined the European Economic Community: 1973.
A steam engineer tipped off Turkish boat collector Rahmi Koç that the yacht, built by Simpson, Strickland & Co of Dartmouth in 1893, was original down to her quadruple expansion, four-cylinder engine. Mr Koç bought her and this autumn she left RMK Marine after four years’ work to restore her to steam. The 20-mile (32km) passage to the Rahmi M Koç Museum under her own power might be her last, as Ysolt is now in the museum’s static display.
The Sailing Boat Which Blazed a Trail: ‘Kısmet’
In 1965, Sadun Boro, the first Turkish sailor to globe trot, with his wife Oda and their cat Miço who joined them from the Canary Islands, went on a tour around the world which took 2 years and 10 months in Kısmet, their 10.5 metre boat. They set sail from İstanbul on the 22nd August 1965, navigating a route through Gibraltar, Canary Islands, Barbados, Caribbean Islands, Pana-ma Channel,
Galapagos Islands, Marquise Islands, Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti and Leeward Islands, Tonga Islands, Fiji Islands, New Hebridean Islands, New Guinea Island, Torres Strait, Timor Island, Indonesia, Singapore, Bengal Bay, Ceylon Island, Arabic Sea, Red Sea, Israel and arrived back in İstanbul on 15th June 1968. Their daughter Kısmet Deniz was born in 1969. In 1977, the Boro family set sail again in Kismet with their daughter for their second journey around the globe which would take two years and 3 months. Kindly Donated by Mr. Sadun Boro
Olive Oil FactoryA lovingly recreated and authentic industrial scene, incorporating all the elements of an actual olive oil factory from Bademli on the Aegean Coast. See the original steam engine turning and operating the drive belts and millstones. Other items include the original crushed olive presses and boiler front, plus many other historical details.
Galapagos Islands, Marquise Islands, Tuamotu Islands, Tahiti and Leeward Islands, Tonga Islands, Fiji Islands, New Hebridean Islands, New Guinea Island, Torres Strait, Timor Island, Indonesia, Singapore, Bengal Bay, Ceylon Island, Arabic Sea, Red Sea, Israel and arrived back in İstanbul on 15th June 1968. Their daughter Kısmet Deniz was born in 1969. In 1977, the Boro family set sail again in Kismet with their daughter for their second journey around the globe which would take two years and 3 months. Kindly Donated by Mr. Sadun Boro
Olive Oil FactoryA lovingly recreated and authentic industrial scene, incorporating all the elements of an actual olive oil factory from Bademli on the Aegean Coast. See the original steam engine turning and operating the drive belts and millstones. Other items include the original crushed olive presses and boiler front, plus many other historical details.
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