Ottoman Navy Warships 1914-18/Военные корабли Османского флота 1914-18

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The humiliating Ottoman defeats in the Italo-Turkish War of 1911 and the First Balkan War of 1912-13 and poor performance of the small Ottoman fleet compelled the new Ottoman leadership to embark on naval expansion of some manner.
The old “Sick Man of Europe” was a pariah state on the Continent, surrounded by hostile naval powers all eager to see its dismemberment and, with over 11,000 miles of coastline to protect, the defensive necessity of a modern fleet had become all too painfully clear. It was against this diplomatic backdrop that the Young Turk governments desperately sought to modernize the Ottoman Navy and create a modern battle fleet, centered around dreadnought battleships, that would reestablish the Empire as a potent regional naval power.
Unexpectedly, however, the course of this brief Ottoman naval resurgence from 1909 to 1914 played a major role of bringing the Empire into World War I; unfortunately the dreadnoughts that were the centerpiece of this resurgence saw no action under the Ottoman ensign and the fleet had to persist with the hodge-podge of vessels acquired by Abdulhamid II and the early purchases of the Young Turk governments.
This work will provide a concise overview of the primary warships that played active roles in the conflict that finally resulted in the death of the old “Sick Man of Europe.”

Contents
Introduction
Ships of the ottoman navy
The ottoman navy at the beginning of world war I
German-ottoman operations in the black sea, 1914-17
Yavuz versus the Pre-Dreadnoughts of the Black Sea Fleet
The Last Ottoman Fleet Action
Cruiser Operations in 1915
Midilli's Raid on Schlangen Island
Operations in the Dardanelles, 1915-18
The Big Guns of Barbaros Hayreddin and Torgut Reis
The Cruise of Demirhisar
Nusret's Minefield
Countering the Allied Submarine Threat
The Largest Air-Sea Battle of the War
The end of the war, 1918
Bibliography
Index