Turkish battleships taken into British naval service according to the Dutch newspaper Het nieuws van de dag: kleine courant morning edition dated 10 August 1914

HMS Agincourt (ex-Brazilian Rio de Janeiro and Turkish Sultan Osman-1 Evvel)

HMS Erin ex-Turkish Resaduye)

Constantinople, 8 August. The Ottoman government officially announced that England the two battleships Sultan Osman and Reschadieh which were laid down for Turkish account and two destroyers of 1,850 tons originally destined for Chile but bought by Turkey were seized and transferred to the Royal British Navy. The battleships were renamed Agincourt and Erin. Turkey protested severely against the British procedure.