An item referred to tidings received from Petrograd, Russia reporting that after the battle on 8 January between the Goeben (1) and a Russian battleship the Goeben returned while damaged to Constantinople, Turkey with 39 of her crew members killed and 80 wounded.
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1. Handed over with the Breslau to Turkey on 16 August 1914 and renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim but mostly referred to as Yavuz. In 1936 officially rebaptized Yavuz, decommissioned in 1950 and broken up in 1973. Ordered to be built at the Blohm&Voss yard at Hamburg, Germany on 8 April 1909, laid down on 28 August 1909, launched on 28 March 1911 and commissioned in the Imperial German navy on 2 July 1912. Of the Moltke-class, preceded by Von der Tann, succeeded by Seydlitz, with a displacement of 22,979 (design)-25,400 (full load) tons and as dimensions 187,6 x 30 x 9,2 metres. Her main armament in German service were 5x2-28cm guns.
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