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    Hamidiye was an Ottoman cruiser that saw extensive action during the Balkan Wars and World War I. Initially named Abdül Hamid, it was ordered by the Ottoman...
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    Battle of Kaliakra (1912) (category Naval battles involving the Ottoman Empire)
    a maritime action between four Bulgarian torpedo boats and the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye in the Black Sea. It took place on 21 November 1912 at 32 miles...
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    Ottoman Navy and was to have been named Drama, and was based on the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. She had not been completed by the outbreak of the Italo-Turkish...
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  • Hamidiye may refer to: Hamidiye (cavalry), irregular Ottoman cavalry units established in 1890 Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye, a warship of the Balkan wars...
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    First Balkan War (category 1912 in the Ottoman Empire)
    to break the Greek blockade, the Ottoman Admiralty sought to create a diversion by sending the light cruiser Hamidiye, captained by Rauf Bey, to raid Greek...
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    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...
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    to break the Greek blockade, the Ottoman Admiralty decided to create a diversion by sending the light cruiser Hamidiye, captained by Rauf Bey, to raid...
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    in 1927, to Melahat, the daughter of the chief engineer on the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. From this marriage, a son Özdemir was born. The couple adopted...
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    torpedo boats attacked the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye; Bulgarian torpedo boat Drazki managed to score a hit, forcing Hamidiye to retreat back to Istanbul...
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  • Melahat was born in 1899. Her father was the chief engineer on the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye. In 1927, she married army officer Cemal Bey, who was introduced...
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    Rauf Orbay (category Ottoman Naval Academy alumni)
    Abkhazian family. As an officer in the Ottoman Navy, he achieved fame for his actions as the captain of the cruiser Hamidiye during the First Balkan War. He...
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  • by which time the Ottoman navy had purchased two foreign-built protected cruisers with a quick-firing armament, Mecidiye and Hamidiye. Conways, p. 392...
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  • back to base, Holbrook was awarded the Victoria Cross. Two Ottoman protected cruisers, Hamidiye and Mecidiye, were both about 10 years old. Mecidiye was...
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    Berk-i Satvet was a torpedo cruiser of the Ottoman Navy, the second and final member of the Peyk-i Şevket class. She was built by the Germaniawerft shipyard...
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  • Kaliakra. An Ottoman force consisting of Hamidiye, Basra and Yarhisar was sent to Varna with the mission of preventing Bulgarian attacks on Ottoman merchant...
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    Russians in early 1915, including an operation in concert with the cruiser Hamidiye in January, during which they inadvertently came into contact with...
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    units of the Ottoman Navy. Over the course of 21 to 31 October 1913, the ship joined Nümune-i Hamiyet and the protected cruisers Hamidiye and Mecidiye...
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    Bulgarian Front of First Balkan War (category 1912 in the Ottoman Empire)
    meters from the Ottoman cruiser and her torpedoes struck the cruiser's starboard side, causing a 10 square meter hole. However, Hamidiye was not sunk, due...
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  • escorted transports of Ottoman troops organised to reinforce the forces defending the Dardanelles. On 3 August 1915, the cruiser Hamidiye and the destroyers...
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  • Selim at Stenia, Constantinople Peyk-i Şevket Mecidiye (Salonika, 1911) Hamidiye (1913) Regia Marina Italiana RN Libia Midilli (Constantinople, 1914). Antalya...
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    of the Ottoman Empire. The most notorious example being the Hamidiye, a mostly Kurdish elite cavalry division of the Ottoman army. The Hamidiye fought...
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    Kagul twice encountered Breslau and the Ottoman protected cruiser Hamidiye, also spelled Hamidieh, but the Ottoman ships escaped both times without either...
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    withdrawal of Hamidiye and the protected cruiser Mecidiye, which had been sent to bombard Odessa. Strong currents, however, forced the cruisers 15 miles (24 km)...
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  • Protected cruisers Hamidiye (Abdul Hamid) (1903) - BU 1947 Mecidiye (1903) - captured by Russian 1915, restored 1918, BU 1948 Light cruisers Midilli (ex-German...
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    Lemnos resulted from an Ottoman plan to lure the faster Georgios Averof away from the Dardanelles. The protected cruiser Hamidiye evaded the Greek blockade...
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    owing to Hamidiye's poor condition. She was ultimately stricken in 1909 and broken up for scrap in 1913. Though Hamidiye was the last Ottoman ironclad...
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  • SS Macedonia (1911) (category Auxiliary cruisers)
    Ermoupoli, on the Cycladean island of Syros. On 14 January 1913 the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye slipped through the Greek naval blockade of the Dardanelles, and...
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  • Durandal-class destroyers purchased by the Ottoman Empire from France in 1907. The ship served in the Ottoman Navy during the Italo-Turkish War, the Balkan...
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    October 1923, the former Ottoman vessels that remained under Turkish control were as follows: In active service: 2 cruisers (Hamidiye, Peyk-i Şevket), 2 yachts...
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  • be complete by 29 November. On 9 January 1915 Breslau and the Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye encountered the Russian fleet while returning from a bombardment...
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