![]() ![]() Yavuz Sultan Selim sparred with the Russians several times over the first two years of the war, trying to use her superior speed and firepower to separate one or more victims from the herd. The Russians had their five pre-dreadnoughts while the Turks surprisingly had the battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim, a modern German warship (originally named Goeben) crewed by Germans that had been transferred to the Ottomans after fleeing British battlecruisers in the Mediterranean. While naval operations in the Black Sea in World War I represented one of the most exciting and complex naval campaigns of the war, observers at the time preferred to concentrate on events in the North Sea. This meant that the five ships were available to the Russians when war broke out between the Russian and Ottoman Empires in late 1914. Russian warships during Navy Day celebrations in Sevastopol Bay. Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. ![]()
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