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Ottoman battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim

SMS Goeben
A large gray warship steams at full speed; thick black smoke pours from its two funnels.
SMS Goeben
History
German Empire
Name: Goeben
Namesake: August Karl von Goeben
Ordered: 8 April 1909
Builder: Blohm & Voss, Hamburg
Laid down: 28 August 1909
Launched: 28 March 1911
Commissioned: 2 July 1912
Fate: Transferred to the Ottoman Empire 16 August 1914
Ottoman Empire
Name: Yavuz Sultan Selim
Namesake: Selim I
Acquired: 16 August 1914
Commissioned: 16 August 1914
Decommissioned: 20 December 1950
Renamed: Yavuz in 1936
Struck: 14 November 1954
Fate: Scrapped in 1973
General characteristics
Class and type: Moltke-class battlecruiser
Displacement:
  • Design: 22,979 t (22,616 long tons)
  • Full load: 25,400 t (25,000 long tons)
Length: 186.6 m (612 ft 2 in)
Beam: 30 m (98 ft 5 in)
Draft: 9.2 m (30 ft 2 in)
Installed power:
  • Design: 51,289 shp (38,246 kW)
  • Maximum: 84,490 shp (63,004 kW)
Propulsion: 4 screws, Parsons steam turbines
Speed:
  • Design: 25.5 kn (47.2 km/h; 29.3 mph)
  • Maximum: 28.4 kn (52.6 km/h; 32.7 mph)
Range: 4,120 nmi (7,630 km; 4,740 mi) at 14 kn (26 km/h; 16 mph)
Complement:
  • 43 officers
  • 1,010 men
Armament:
Armor:
  • Belt: 280–100 mm (11.0–3.9 in)
  • Barbettes: 230 mm (9.1 in)
  • Turrets: 230 mm
  • Deck: 76.2–25.4 mm (3–1 in)
  • Conning tower: 350 mm (14 in)

SMS Goeben  was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben. Along with her sister ship, Goeben was similar to the previous German battlecruiser design, Von der Tann, but larger, with increased armor protection and two more main guns in an additional turret. Goeben and Moltke were significantly larger and better armored than the comparable British Indefatigable class.

Several months after her commissioning in 1912, Goeben, with the light cruiser Breslau, formed the German Mediterranean Division and patrolled there during the Balkan Wars. After the outbreak of World War I on 28 July 1914, Goeben and Breslau bombarded French positions in North Africa and then evaded British naval forces in the Mediterranean and reached Constantinople. The two ships were transferred to the Ottoman Empire on 16 August 1914, and Goeben became the flagship of the Ottoman Navy as Yavuz Sultan Selim, usually shortened to Yavuz. By bombarding Russian facilities in the Black Sea, she brought Turkey into World War I on the German side. The ship operated primarily against Russian forces in the Black Sea during the war, including several inconclusive engagements with Russian battleships. She made a sortie into the Aegean in January 1918 that resulted in the Battle of Imbros, where Yavuz sank a pair of British monitors but was herself badly damaged by mines.


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