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Monday 30 December 2013

Turkish naval program according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant evening edition dated 31 March 1924

German SMS Goeben

Constantinople, 31 March, The Nation Assemble at Angora doubled the navy budget from 3,000,000 tot 6,000,000. The extra money was to be used to repair a battleship and to buy a submarine.(1)

Note
1.This battleship must be the Yavuz, the former German Goeben.