British HMS Agincourt
HMS Erin in Fleets of the world 1915. Compiled from official sources and classified according to types
An item reported that recently some Turkish navy officers visited England to buy 120.000 tons coal and four of five transports each of 5.000-6.000 tons with a minimum speed of 10-11 knots and to be used for transporting troops if the war broke out. One of these officers seemed to have said that a war with Greece was not to be avoided and if Greece did not declare the war on Turkey the latter country would conquer Chios and Mytilene as soon as the two British built dreadnoughts would arrived in the Dardanelles.(1)
Note
1. These dreadnoughts called Residaye and Sultan Osman I were however taken over by the British Royal navy in August 1914 and were renamed HMS Egin and Agincourt despite Turkey paid for them. See for instance the small note Turkish dreadnoughts building in England according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant evening edition dated 19 August 1914 on the links http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.nl/2011/11/turkish-dreadnoughts-building-in.html and http://warshipsresearch.blogspot.nl/2011/11/turkish-battleships-taken-into-british.html
