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TCG Kılıç Ali Paşa

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ7669696 ↗
Source-derived summary

Two ships of the Turkish Navy have been named TCG Kılıç Ali Paşa for Kılıç Ali Paşa:

TCG Kılıç Ali Paşa (D-350) was a Royal Navy M-class destroyer launched in 1941 as HMS Matchless (G52). She was sold to the Turkish Navy in 1959 and renamed Kılıç Ali Paşa, and decommissioned in 1970.

TCG Kılıç Ali Paşa (D-349) was a United States Navy Gearing-class destroyer launched in 1945 as USS Robert H. McCard (DD-822). She was sold to the Turkish Navy in 1980 and renamed Kılıç Ali Paşa, and decommissioned on 29 September 1998.

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“TCG Kılıç Ali Paşa” enters the record as wikimedia disambiguation page. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kılıç, Paşa and Wikimedia can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 1959, 1970, 1945—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kılıç, Paşa and Wikimedia.
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Why this record matters

“TCG Kılıç Ali Paşa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kılıç, Paşa and Wikimedia provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7669696. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1941, 1959, 1970 and 1945.

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This entry incorporates text from “TCG Kılıç Ali Paşa” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.