SMS Goeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy. She was the last surviving ship built by the German Navy, and the longest-serving dreadnought-type ship in any navy. The ship was armed with a main battery of ten 28 cm SK L50 gunss mounted in five twin-gun turrets. In 1936 she was officially renamed TCG Yavuz; she carried the remains of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from Istanbul to İzmit in 1938.
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SMS Goeben was the second of two Moltke-class battlecruisers of the Imperial German Navy. She was the last surviving ship built by the German Navy, and the longest-serving dreadnought-type ship in any navy. The ship was armed with a main battery of ten 28 cm SK L50 gunss mounted in five twin-gun turrets; of these, one was placed forward, two were en echelon amidships and the other two were in a superfiring pair aft. For defense against torpedo boats, she carried eight 8.45 cm SK L45 guns, also in individual mounts in the bow, the conning tower, and one in the stern. The Krupp cemented steel belt was 280mm thick, with a top speed of 25. 5 knots and a range of 4,120 nautical miles. In 1936 she was officially renamed TCG Yavuz; she carried the remains of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk from Istanbul to İzmit in 1938. She remained the flagship of the Turkish Navy until she was decommissioned in 1950. The West German government declined an invitation to buy her back from Turkey in 1973, and she was scrapped in 1973. The German Navy ordered two ships for the 1908 and 1909 building years; Moltk was the first, followed by goeben. The ships were ordered by the Kaiserliche Marine in 1907, and were completed in 1909 and 1910, respectively. They were 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.
The main battery had 230mm faces, and they sat atop barbettes that were equally thick, sloping downward at the bottom of the sloping side to connect to the bottom edge of the deck. The deck was 25 to 76mm on either end of the gun turrets, and had a 76mm to 76 mm ammunition belt. At 14 knots, the ship had a range and a draft of 9. 19 m fully loaded. She displaced 22,979 t normally, and 25,400 t at full load. She made a sortie into the Aegean in January 1918 that resulted in the Battle of Imbros, where she sank a pair of British monitors but was herself badly damaged by mines. In 1918, she was ordered back to Germany, but she was not commissioned until the end of World War I in September. She served as the flagship for the Ottoman Navy until 1936, when she became the flagship Yavuz Sultan Selim, usually shortened to Yavu. She also served as a training ship for the German Army. She is the only German ship to have served in the First World War, and was the only one to serve in the Second World War as well as the First Gulf War and the Second Gulf War. She has been named after the German Franco-Prussian War veteran General August Karl von Goebens.
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