The wreck of the Turkish warship from the First World War in Chios is located at Koma beach.
The wreck of the torpedo boat “Demir Hisar” is located at Koma beach in Chios, a short distance from the shore and at a depth of 5 meters. It is the hull of a Turkish warship from the First World War.
Its length reached 40.2 meters, its width 4.40 and its draft 1.90. Its theoretically maximum speed of 26 knots during the operations of the First World War did not exceed 11 knots. The ship was ordered in 1906 at the Schneider shipyards in Chalons-sur-Saône, France and was delivered in 1907 as the first of the four torpedo boats acquired by the Ottoman navy.
According to the testimony of Georgios Damalas, a resident of Kalamoti, one spring morning in 1916 the Turkish torpedo boat was pursued and bombarded by the allied ships off the coast of Koma beach and was thus forced to run aground with momentum on the shoreline. Its crew were Turkish and German officers, some of whom were killed while the rest escaped by land.
