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Low effort launchday art for those three. I really just had no idea for scenes/poses etc
Turkish Yavuz Sultan Selim, NATOs only battle cruiser.
The Yavuz Sultan Selim, formerly the Moltke class Goeben.
Turkish Battlecruiser YAVUZ.
Yavuz Sultan Selim Battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim, ex-SMS Goeben. After she was interred in Turkey, she was gifted to the Ottoman Navy and remained with them until her decommissioning in 1950. She was renamed to just Yavuz in 1936, and was scrapped in 1973.
Turkish Battlecruiser CGT Yavuz
CGT Yavuz was a German Moltke -class battlecruiser launched in 1911 as SMS Goeben. Operating in the Mediterranean at the start of World War One, she bombarded French targets before making her way to Constantinople. She was transferred to the Ottoman Navy on 16 August 1914, being renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim. During a sorte in January 1918, Yavuz sank the British monitors HMS Raglan and M28, but was later badly damaged when she hit three mines.
In 1936 she was renamed CGT Yavuz. Decommissioned in 1950, Yavuz was scrapped in 1973.
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Battlecruiser Yavuz turret
Yavuz Sultan Selim (ex-SMS Goeben) in dry dock at Sevastopol for cleaning and painting between 6-12 June 1918, after Germans captured the port. The German-crewed "Ottoman" große kreuzer had not been in dry dock since before the Great War; the Ottomans did not have a dock large enough to service her, so all hull repairs were done with cofferdams - and repairs were numerous. The ship was damaged on a variety of occasions, particularly the January before this photo was taken; Yavuz had struck three mines, run aground, and been damaged by two aerial bombs after the raid on Imbros, in which she had sunk the monitors Raglan and M28. The event had been a confused mass of activity; Ottoman and British aircraft fighting overhead, indirect fire from a monitor while grounded, the loss of Midilli (ex-Breslau) to at least five mines, and the dedicated towing efforts of the old battleship Turgut Reis (ex-SMS Weißenburg) to get the battlecruiser back to the Dardanelles. https://www.facebook.com/hazegreyhistory/