Building was ordered by the Ottoman government and to be named Reşadiye. Modified design based on the British King George V-class using features of HMS Iron Duke. When the First World War broke out seized by the British government as ordered by Winston Churchill at that moment First Lord of the Admiralty. Laid down on the Vickers shipyard, United Kingdom on 6 December 1911, launched on 3 September 1913, completed in August 1914m taken over by the British Royal Navy on 22 August 1914 (she was already completed pair for by the Ottoman government!), since October 1919 part of the naval reserve, drill ship at the Chatham Dockyard since December 1919, refitted at the Devonport Dockyard between July-August 1920, regarded the Washington Treaty she was to become a training ship, decided to dispose her in May 1922, sold to the ship breaking firm Cox and danks on 19 December 1922 and broken up at Queensborough, United Kingdom in 1923.
Displacement 27.500 long tons/27.940 tons (normal)-30.250 long tons/30.740 tons (full load) and as dimensions 170,54 x 27,7 x 8,5 metres or 559.6 x 91 x 28 feet. Horsepower 26.500 ship.19.800 kW delivered by 4 Parsons steam turbines and 15 Babcock boilers delivered via 4 shafts allowing a speed of 21 knots. Her crew numbered 1.070 men. The armament consisted of 5x2-13.5”/34,3cm Mk VI guns, 16x6-6”/15,24cm guns, 6-6pd 5,7cm/2,2” guns and 2x3”/7,62cm anti aircraft gubs and 4-21”/53,3cm torpedo tubes. The armour consisted of a 9”/22,9cm (upper)-12”/30,5cm (main) thick belt with the turrets protected by 4-11”/10,2-27,9cm thick armour.
