List of Cruisers - Turkey/Ottoman Empire

Turkey/Ottoman Empire

Battlecruisers
  • Yavuz (ex-Goeben) (1912) -purchased 1914, BU 1974
Protected cruisers
  • Heibetnuma (1892) - BU 1911
  • Lütf-ü Hümanyun (1892) - BU 1911
  • Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947
  • Mecidiye (1905) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948
Light cruisers
  • Midilli (ex-German Breslau ) (1912) - purchased 1914, mined 1918
Torpedo cruisers
  • Peyk-i Şevket (1906)
  • Berk-i Satvet (1906)

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