Title: "Operations of the German-Turkish Naval Forces in 1914-1918 "
("Операции Германо-Турецких Морских Сил в 1914-1918 гг."
("Der Krieg in Den Türkischen Gewässern")
Author(s)/Editor(s): G. Lorey (Г. Лорей)
Language(s): Russian (Русский)
Publisher: State Military Publishing House of the People's Commissariat of Defense of the USSR ("Государственное Военное Издательство Наркомата Обороны Союза ССР")
Place: Moscow, Soviet Union (Москва ); Year: 1938; Pages: 498 + 3 maps
Cover: Hardback; Sizes: 13 (W) x 20 (H) cm; Copies: Limited
Condition: Good Vintage Condition: General age wear, cover is little worn. Minor cracks on hinges. Toning and some stains. Overall, internally clean; well kept and well preserved pages. For more information regarding book's condition- check provided images or ask us.
Item's Code: XR-1764
ABOUT:
This rare and unique, limited edition, 1938 publication is devoted to the military actions of the German-Turkish naval forces in the First World War. The
author of the work, Kontr-Admiral G. Lorey, a direct participant in the operations in Turkish waters, cites rare documents and copies of
original military maps of that time. The
activities and fate of the cruisers "Geben" and "Breslau" are described
in detail, about which before the publication of Lorey, even in
Germany, there was no complete information. Includes 3 separate maps=chms and many in-text maps and illustrations.
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Издание посвящено военным действиям германо-турецких морских сил в Первой мировой войне. Автор труда контр-адмирал Г.Лорей, непосредственный участник операций в турецких водах, приводит редкие документы и копии подлинных военных карт того времени. Подробнейшим образом освещают деятельность и судьба крейсеров «Гебен» и «Бреслау», о чем до публикации Лорея в 1937 г. Даже в Германии не было полных сведений.
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ADDITIONAL INFO
The Ottoman Navy (Turkish: Osmanlı Donanması or Donanma-yı Humâyûn), also known as the Ottoman Fleet, was established in the early 14th century after the Ottoman Empire first expanded to reach the sea in 1323 by capturing Karamürsel, the site of the first Ottoman naval shipyard and the nucleus of the future Navy. During its long existence, it was involved in many conflicts and signed a number of maritime treaties. At its height, the Navy extended to the Indian Ocean, sending an expedition to Indonesia in 1565.
For much of its history, the Navy was led by the position of the Kapudan Pasha (Grand Admiral; literally "Captain Pasha"). This position was abolished in 1867, when it was replaced by the Minister of the Navy (Turkish: Bahriye Nazırı) and a number of Fleet Commanders (Turkish: Donanma Komutanları). After the end of the Ottoman Empire and the declaration of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the Navy's tradition was continued under the modern Turkish Naval Forces.
Following the Young Turk Revolution in 1908, the Committee of Union and Progress which effectively took control of the country sought to develop a strong Ottoman naval force. The poor condition of the fleet became evident during the Ottoman Naval Parade of 1910, and the Ottoman Navy Foundation was established in order to purchase new ships through public donations. Those who made donations received different types of medals according to the size of their contributions.
In 1910, the Ottoman Navy purchased two pre-dreadnought battleships from Germany: SMS Weissenburg and her sister ship SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm. These ships were renamed Turgut Reis and Barbaros Hayreddin, respectively.
The Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912 and the Balkan Wars of 1912–1913 proved disastrous for the Ottoman Empire. In the former, the Italians occupied Ottoman Tripolitania (present-day Libya) and the Dodecanese Islands in the Aegean Sea. In the latter, a smaller Greek fleet successfully engaged with Ottoman battleships in the naval skirmishes of Elli and Lemnos. The better condition of the Greek fleet in the Aegean Sea during the Balkan Wars led to the liberation of all Ottoman-held Aegean islands other than those in the Italian-occupied Dodecanese. It also prevented Ottoman reinforcements and supplies to the land battles on the Balkan peninsula, where the Balkan League emerged victorious. The only Ottoman naval successes during the Balkan Wars were the raiding actions of the light cruiser Hamidiye under the command of Rauf Orbay.
In the aftermath of the Balkan Wars, the Ottomans remained engaged in a dispute over the sovereignty of the North Aegean islands with Greece. A naval race ensued in 1913–1914, with the Ottoman government ordering large dreadnought battleships like Sultan Osman-ı Evvel and Reşadiye with the aforementioned public donations made to the Ottoman Navy Foundation. Although Istanbul had made full payment for both battleships and sent a Turkish delegation to Britain to collect them after the completion of their sea trials, the United Kingdom confiscated them at the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914 and renamed them as HMS Agincourt and HMS Erin. This caused considerable ill-feeling towards Britain among the Ottoman public, and the German Empire took advantage of the situation when the battlecruiser SMS Goeben and light cruiser SMS Breslau arrived at the Dardanelles and entered service in the Ottoman Navy as Yavuz Sultan Selim and Midilli, respectively. These events significantly contributed to the Porte's decision to enter the First World War on the side of the Central Powers. However, Germany and the Ottomons had already signed a secret alliance, the Ottoman-German alliance on 2 August 1914, before the British naval seizures.
The Ottomans' first military action in the First World War was a surprise attack by the Ottoman Navy on the Russian Black Sea coast on 29 October 1914. The naval raid prompted Russia and its allies, Britain and France, to declare war on the Ottoman Empire in November 1914. During WWI, the Ottoman Navy engaged the Entente Powers in the Mediterranean and Black Sea.
Muâvenet-i Millîye was a torpedo boat (in service between 1910–1923) that sank the pre-dreadnought battleship Goliath during the Battle of Gallipoli in World War I. Considered in the same league as the minelayer Nusret in terms of the role that she played in the naval engagements during the battle, Muâvenet-i Millîye strongly influenced the course of the conflicts by generating a domino effect which caused the failure of the Allied strategy.
In 1915 at the Battle of Gallipoli, the British, French and ANZAC fleets failed to pass through the Dardanelles Strait (çanakkale Boğazı) thanks to the heavy Turkish fortifications lining the Strait, mining by Turkish minelayers like Nusret, and fierce fighting by the Turkish soldiers on land, sea and air. During the battle, the British submarine HMS E11 sank Barbaros Hayreddin on 8 August 1915.
In the last year of World War I, while returning from a bombardment mission of the Allied port of Mudros on the Greek island of Lemnos, Midilli ran into a minefield between Lemnos and Gökçeada on 20 January 1918, and sank after being severely damaged by five consecutive mine hits. During the mission, Midilli, together with Yavuz Sultan Selim, had managed to sink the British warships HMS Raglan and HMS M28, as well as a 2,000-ton transport ship, and had bombarded the port of Mudros, together with the communication posts and air fields of the Allies on the other parts of Lemnos. The battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim became one of the most active Ottoman warships throughout the First World War; she bombarded numerous ports on the Black Sea and Aegean Sea, while engaging with Russian dreadnought battleships of the Imperatritsa Mariya class and sinking a number of Russian and British warships and transport vessels.
Following the end of World War I, the victorious Allies dissolved the Ottoman Navy and the large ships of the Ottoman fleet were towed to the Prince Islands in the Sea of Marmara under the control of Allied warships, or locked inside the Golden Horn. Some of them were scrapped.
After the independence of the Republic of Turkey in 1923, the remaining major warships of the former Ottoman fleet, such as the battlecruiser TCG Yavuz, the pre-dreadnought battleship TCG Turgut Reis, protected cruisers TCG Hamidiye and TCG Mecidiye, torpedo cruisers Berk-i Satvet and Peyk-i Şevket, destroyers TCG Samsun, TCG Basra and TCG Taşoz, and torpedo boats TCG Burak Reis, TCG Kemal Reis, TCG îsâ Reis and TCG Sakız were overhauled, repaired and modernized, while new ships and submarines were acquired.
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Осмáнский флот (тур. Osmanlı Donanması) — военно-морской флот Османской империи. В средние века являлся одним из сильнейших военно-морских флотов в Средиземноморье. Кроме того, в сферу интересов флота в разное время входили Чёрное и Красное моря, Индийский океан.В 1525 году алжирский флот стараниями Хайр-ад-Дин Барбаросса, турецкого вассала, стал ударной и непобедимой силой Османской империи. Командующим османским флотом в 1533 году становится Хайр-ад-Дин Барбаросса. В 1534 году он завоевал для своего султана Тунис. В 1536 году Сулейман очень удачно заключил тайный союз с Франциском I, королём Франции, обеспечив своему флоту возможность базироваться в портах Франции. В 1537 Хайр-ад-Дин начал военные действия на Средиземном море против христиан: ограбил Корфу, атаковал Апулию и угрожал Неаполю. В следующем, 1538 году, Венеция, Испания и папа римский неудачно напали на Турцию, но наткнулись на опытного и мощного Хайр-ад-Дина. Он опустошил острова Эгейского моря, которые принадлежали Венеции, и покорил Занте, Чериго, Эгину, Андрос, Наксос и Парос. Параллельно с действиями своего флота Сулейман I подчинил себе Молдову.
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