This newspaper reported what happened with the former German battle cruiser Goeben which was in the First World War handed over to Turkey and renamed Yawaz. After the armistice was she taken by the Allied forces but as a result of the peace treaty of Lausanne handed over to Turkey. Her condition was at that moment very worse and nothing worth than to be broken up for scrap. She was towed to the naval base in the Bay of Ismid and to ordered to be repaired. A German firm built at this location a new dock. When the dock was completed and the Goeben towed into it sunk. According to the private correspondent at Constantinople of the newspaper Temps was the Goeben now lying for a month in the dock. A French firm compiled of five French shipyards was ordered to repair her and in the meantime some French engineers arrived at Ismid to be followed by around 100 French labourers. Turkey seemed to have huge expectations of the ships once repaired. The Akcham even said that she joined by the necessary smaller units would give Turkey the superiority over the Aegean Sea and the Black Sea and at least a force able to match up to the Greek navy.
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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 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.
