SMS Goeben[a] was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goeben. Along with her sister ship, Goeben was similar to the previous German battlecruiser design, Von der Tann, but larger, with increased armor protection and two more main guns in an additional turret. Goeben and Moltke were significantly larger and better armored than the comparable British Indefatigable class.[b]
Several months after her commissioning in 1912, Goeben, with the light cruiser Breslau, formed the German Mediterranean Division and patrolled there during the Balkan Wars. After the outbreak of World War I on 28 July 1914, Goeben and Breslau bombarded French positions in North Africa and then evaded British naval forces in the Mediterranean and reached Constantinople. The two ships were transferred to the Ottoman Empire on 16 August 1914, and Goeben became the flagship of the Ottoman Navy as Yavuz Sultan Selim, usually shortened to Yavuz. By bombarding Russian facilities in the Black Sea, she brought Turkey into World War I on the German side. The ship operated primarily against Russian forces in the Black Sea during the war, including several inconclusive engagements with Russian battleships. She made a sortie into the Aegean in January 1918 that resulted in the Battle of Imbros, where Yavuz sank a pair of British monitors but was herself badly damaged by mines.
In 1936 she was officially renamed TCG Yavuz ("Ship of the Turkish Republic Yavuz"); she carried the remains of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from Istanbul to İzmit in 1938. Yavuz remained the flagship of the Turkish Navy until she was decommissioned in 1950. She was scrapped in 1973, after the West German government declined an invitation to buy her back from Turkey. She was the last surviving ship built by the Imperial German Navy, and the longest-serving dreadnought-type ship in any navy.
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SMSGoeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy, launched in 1911 and named after the German Franco-Prussian War...
Goeben may refer to: August Karl von Goeben (1816-1880), Prussian general SMSGoeben, a German battlecruiser launched in 1911 Gobin, a list of people with...
German Mittelmeerdivision consisting of the battlecruiser SMSGoeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau. The German ships evaded the British fleet and passed...
I, Viribus Unitis took part in the flight of the German battlecruiser SMSGoeben and light cruiser Breslau. In May 1915, she also took part in the bombardment...
advantage of the situation by sending the battlecruiser SMSGoeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau to the Ottoman capital of Constantinople in 1914...
Austro-Hungarian flotilla sent to protect the escape of the German ships SMSGoeben and SMS Breslau from the British-held Mediterranean; she advanced as far as...
including mobilization to assist the escape of the German ships SMSGoeben and SMS Breslau and the bombardment of Ancona in 1915. At the end of the war...
following day received instructions to shadow the German battlecruiser SMSGoeben. With the German ship already sighted, Milne ordered two British battleships...
Mittelmeerdivision) was a division consisting of the battlecruiser SMSGoeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau of the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy)...
Austro-Hungarian flotilla sent to protect the escape of the German ships SMSGoeben and SMS Breslau from the British-held Mediterranean; she advanced as far as...
government offered SMSGoeben and SMS Breslau to the Ottoman Navy as replacements to gain influence. The British Pursuit of Goeben and Breslau failed...
the aft turret, but still using 28 cm guns. SMS Moltke became part of the High Seas Fleet, but SMSGoeben became part of the Mediterranean squadron and...
blighted by the events surrounding the pursuit of two German warships, SMSGoeben and SMS Breslau. Despite being outclassed by the German warships, Troubridge...
Austro-Hungarian flotilla sent to protect the escape of the German ships SMSGoeben and SMS Breslau from the British-held Mediterranean; she advanced as far as...
Austro-Hungarian flotilla sent to protect the escape of the German ships SMSGoeben and SMS Breslau from the British-held Mediterranean; she advanced as far as...
HMS Erin) under construction in the United Kingdom. 10 – German warships SMSGoeben and SMS Breslau, having evaded Royal Navy pursuit in the Mediterranean, reach...
renamed Goeben after him, and the 28th Infantry bears his name. A statue of Goeben by Fritz Schaper was erected at Koblenz in 1884. The SMSGoeben, a Moltke-class...
(formerly HMS Canada) until 1959. The Turkish battlecruiser Yavûz (formerly SMSGoeben, launched in 1911) was scrapped in 1976 after an offer to sell her back...
Yavuz Sultan Selim may refer to: Selim I (1465–1520) SMSGoeben, a German battlecruiser renamed Yavuz Selim after she was transferred to the Ottoman Empire...
Ottoman Empire. When two German warships, the battlecruiser SMSGoeben and the cruiser SMS Breslau, became trapped in Ottoman territory after the start...
Meanwhile, in the Mediterranean, the German battlecruiser SMSGoeben and the light cruiser SMS Breslau were cruising off of French Algeria. Admiral Wilhelm...
Admiral Wilhelm Souchon took SMSGoeben, SMS Breslau, and a squadron of Ottoman warships into the Black Sea (see pursuit of Goeben and Breslau) and raided...
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