Plate 75 of 87 · Class VIII, Ships & submarines

SMS Goeben

A German battlecruiser which, with the light cruiser Breslau, evaded British forces in the Mediterranean in August 1914 and reached Constantinople. Both ships were transferred to the Ottoman Empire, and by bombarding Russian facilities in the Black Sea Goeben, renamed Yavuz Sultan Selim, brought Turkey into the war.

Mentioned in

• Chapter III The War of Movement §9 The War Spreads: Turkey, the Seas and the Colonies
• Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings Overview§7 The Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic
• Chapter XIII A World on Fire §1 Why a European War Became a World War

Sources

Sources

• en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Goeben

Wikidata Q694461