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Tuesday, 13 January 2026

Positions of Turkish warships in the Mediterranean in December 1913

German Brandenburg-class battleships. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

Mesudiye/Messoudieh. ©Warshipsresearch.blogspot.com

In a tiding of the German Mittelmeerdivision dated Constantinople, Turkey dated 5 December 1913 was the location of several Turkish warships described. In the Golden Horn the battleships Barbaross Heireddin [former German Brandenburg-class SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm], Torgud Reiss [former German Brandenburg-class SMS Weissenburg] and Messudije, the protected cruisers Meschidijeh [Mecidiye, Medjidiye or Médjidié] and Hamidie, 2 large torpedo boats of the Beck-i-Safwet-class, 4 S-boats, 3 aged boats, 2 disarmed aged cruisers, steam mine transport Reschid Pascha and the steam transport Halep. Before the palace Dolma-Bagtsche of the sultan the yachts Ertogrul and Istambul.

Source

Bundesarchiv RM 40/574. Fremde Marinen June 1913-December 1914. 

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