Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye

History
Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye
Ottoman Empire
Name:	Hamidiye
Namesake:	Sultan Abdülhamid II
Ordered:	1900
Builder:	Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Newcastle
Yard number:	732
Laid down:	April 1902
Launched:	25 September 1903
Commissioned:	April 1904
Honours and awards:	Cruiser Hamidiye Medal 1913
Fate:	Under British control 1918-1925, then ceded to the Turkish Navy.
Turkey
Name:	Hamidiye
Commissioned:	1925
Decommissioned:	1947
Notes:	Used for cadet training between 1940 and 1947.
General characteristics Hamidiye
Type:	Light cruiser
Displacement:	3,904 tons (normal)
Length:	112 m (367 ft) (LOA) 103.6 m (340 ft) (LPP)
Beam:	14.5 m (48 ft)
Draught:	4.8 m (16 ft)
Propulsion:	Machinery: Steam, 3 shafts Engines: 2 × VTE 4-cylinder engines producing 12,000 ihp, Hawthorn Leslie and Company Boilers: 16 × Niclausse water-tube boilers
Speed:	22.2 knots (full speed in trials) 16 knots (normal cruising speed)
Complement:	400 (1904) 355 (1915)
Armament:	2 × 150mm QF L/45 guns 8 × 120mm QF L/50 guns 6 × 47mm QF L/50 guns 6 × 37mm QF guns 2 × 457mm torpedo tubes 70 × mines

Hamidiye was an Ottoman cruiser that saw extensive action during the Balkan Wars and World War I. Initially named Abdül Hamid, it was ordered by the Ottoman Navy in 1900 to the British shipbuilding company Armstrong Whitworth. It was laid down in Elswick, Newcastle, in April 1902; launched on 25 September 1903; its sea trials began on 17 December 1903; and it was commissioned in April 1904. It weighed 3,904 tons; was 112m long with a beam of 14.5m and a draught of 4.8m; and was named after the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II.

It had two 150mm L/45 quick firing guns, eight 120mm L/50 quick firing guns, six 47mm L/50 quick firing guns, six 37mm quick firing guns, and two 457mm torpedo tubes.Hamidiye was powered by two sets of 4-cylinder triple expansion steam engines providing a top speed of 22.2 knots and carried a nominal complement of 400 (in 1904) and 355 (in 1915).

Its name Abdül Hamid was changed to Hamidiye after the 1908 Young Turk Revolution. Under the terms of the Treaty of Sèvres, which ended the First World War between the Allies and the Ottoman Empire, the ship was to be handed over to the United Kingdom as war compensation. However, the ensuing Turkish War of Independence culminated in the abrogation of the Treaty of Sèvres; it was replaced by the Treaty of Lausanne, which permitted the new Turkish republic to retain its fleet, including Hamidiye, which became a training ship.

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