Muavenet-i Milliye
Torpedo boat Muâvenet-i Millîye
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 Ottoman Empire
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| Name: | Muâvenet-i Millîye |
| Builder: | Schichau-Werft, Germany |
| Laid down: | 1908 |
| Launched: | 20 March 1909 |
| Completed: | 17 August 1910 |
| Decommissioned: | October 1918 |
| Fate: | scrapped 1953 |
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| Class and type: | Muâvenet-i Millîye-class destroyer |
| Displacement: | 765 t (753 LT) |
| Length: | 74 m (243 ft) |
| Beam: | 7.9 m (26 ft) |
| Draft: | 3 m (9.8 ft) |
| Propulsion: | 17700 HP, 2 turbines, 2 boilers |
| Speed: | 26 kn (48 km/h; 30 mph) |
| Range: | 1,000 nmi (1,900 km; 1,200 mi) at 17 kn (31 km/h; 20 mph) |
| Complement: | 90 (peacetime) |
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Muavenet-i Milliye or Muâvenet-i Millîye was a destroyer built for the Ottoman Navy prior to World War I. The ship is most notable for sinking the British pre-dreadnought battleship Goliath during the Dardanelles Campaign in World War I.
"Muâvenet" means support in Ottoman Turkish, and the full name of this first ship of that name, "Muâvenet-i Millîye", signifies national support. Her name was given in honor of the Ottoman Navy National Support Association (Donanma-i Osmânî Muâvenet-i Millîye Cemiyeti, in short Navy Association / Donanma Cemiyeti). This association was founded on the initiative of a merchant named Yağcızade Şefik Bey in July 1909, followed shortly afterwards by a wider participation including the more modest layers of the society. It collected funds through voluntary participation from among the Ottoman public to finance her purchase. Muâvenet-i Millîye was the first ship purchased, in Germany, through the financing made available thanks to the efforts of the association.
Three other Turkish Navy ships of different periods, the last being presently in service, were later named in memory of Muâvenet-i Millîye to recall her achievement. One of the first aircraft of the Ottoman air squadrons, contemporaneous to the ship, was given the same name.
Muavenet-i Milliye and her sister ships, Yadigar-i Millet, Numune-i Hamiyet, and Gayret-i Vataniye, were originally laid down as the German torpedo boats S165-S168. Upon completion, they were sold to the Ottoman Navy in September 1910. (Schichau-Werft built a second group of torpedo boats named S165-S168 as replacements, completing them in 1911.)
As of 1912, the command of Muâvenet-i Millîye was assumed by the Kıdemli Yüzbaşı (senior lieutenant, see Naval officer ranks) Ayasofyali Ahmed Saffed (after the Surname Law of 1934: Ahmet Saffet Ohkay), member of a new generation of officers who were specially trained in view of the more modern ships the Ottoman Navy acquired. In the first months of the Ottoman entry into World War I, the ship was assigned to missions in the Black Sea, from where she was re-directed towards Çanakkale with the start of the Dardanelles Campaign.
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