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SMS ''Goeben'' was the second of two s 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, , 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 . Several months after her commissioning in 1912, ''Goeben'', with the light cruiser , 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'' 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. 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. == Design == ''Goeben'' was long, wide, and had a draft of fully loaded. The ship displaced normally, and fully loaded. ''Goeben'' was powered by four-shaft Parsons steam turbines in two sets and 24 coal-fired Schulz-Thornycroft water-tube boilers, which provided a rated and a top speed of . At , the ship had a range of . The ship was armed with a main battery of ten 28 cm SK L/50 guns in five twin gun turrets. Her secondary armament consisted of twelve 15 cm SK L/45 guns in casemates in the central portion of the ship and twelve 8.8 cm SK L/45 guns in the bow, in the stern, and around the forward conning tower. She was also equipped with four 50 cm (20 in) submerged torpedo tubes. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「SMS Goeben」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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