GOEBEN.  Built at Blohm and Voss at Hamburg and launched 28th March 1911 and commissioned  2nd of July 1912, entering service on 28th August 1912.  She was the only German Battleship or Battlecruiser to serve outside the German High seas Fleet. Goeben was serving in the Mediteranean when world war One started. Bombarding Philippeville in Algeria on the 4th |August 1914 and fleeing the British ships to Neutral Turkey. On the 16th of August the Goeben was transferred or "Sold" (after being pursued by Royal naval Ships into the then Neutral Turkish waters), to the Turkish navy and became Jawuz Sultan Selim, She was still crewed by The German Sailors, and she was the first ship to fire on Sebastopol,  which opened Russo-Turkish conflict. she was mined in the approached to the Bosphorus but could only receive temporary repairs.. She had a successful attack on the island of Imbros and was struck by two mines and luckily managed to limp back to Constantinople. After the armistice, Turkey was not permitted to keep large warships, but the Jawuz Sultan Selim was permitted to stay with Turkey but it was in a disabled state. The ship was refitted for Turkey by France between 1927 and 1930. The name changed again in 1936 to Yavuz she served as the Turkish Flagship until 1950 and was finally decommissioned in 1973 and scrapped during 1974

.Displacement 22, 640 tons, and full load 25,400 tons,  Speed: 25.5 knots.  range: 4,100 Nautical Miles at 14 Knots.  Compliment: 1,107    Armament: Ten 11 -inch Guns (5 x 2)  Twelve 5.9 inch guns. Twelve 3.4 inch guns.  Four 20 inch Torpedo tubes. (one in the bow , Two in the beam and one in the stern. all submerged)

Goeben, 1913.

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The Goeben after she had been transferred to the Turkish Navy and renamed 

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SMS Goeben.

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Goeben, 1912.

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GOEBEN.  Built at Blohm and Voss at Hamburg and launched 28th March 1911 and commissioned  2nd of July 1912, entering service on 28th August 1912.  She was the only German Battleship or Battlecruiser to serve outside the German High seas Fleet. Goeben was serving in the Mediteranean when world war One started. On the 16th of August the Goeben was transferred or "Sold" (after being pursued by Royal naval Ships into the then Neutral Turkish waters), to the Turkish navy and became Jawuz Sultan Selim, She was still crewed by The German Sailors, and she was the first ship to fire on Sebastopol,  which opened Russo-Turkish conflict. she was mined in the approached to the Bosphorus but could only receive temporary repairs.. She had a successful attack on the island of Imbros and was struck by two mines and luckily managed to limp back to Constantinople. After the armistice, Turkey was not permitted to keep large warships, but the Jawuz Sultan Selim was permitted to stay with Turkey but it was in a disabled state. The ship was refitted for Turkey by France between 1927 and 1930. The name changed again in 1936 to Yavuz she served as the Turkish Flagship until 1950 and was finally decommissioned in 1973 and scrapped during 1974.