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MİDİLLİ light cruiser (1912/1914)


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Midilli 1915

Ships


Name No Yard No Builder Laid down Launched Comp Fate
Midilli (ex-Breslau)     Vulcan, Stettin, Germany 1910 16.5.1911 10.5.1912 // 16.8.1914 sunk 20.1.1918


Technical data


Displacement normal, t

4564

Displacement full, t

5281

Length, m

138.7 oa 136.0 wl

Breadth, m

13.5

Draught, m

5.73 deep load

No of shafts

4

Machinery

4 AEG-Vulcan steam turbines, 16 Marine boilers

Power, h. p.

25000

Max speed, kts

27

Fuel, t

coal 1200 + oil 106

Endurance, nm(kts)

5820(12)

Armour, mm

belt: 60 - 18, deck: 40 - 20, slopes: 60 - 40, glacises: 100, CT: 100, shields: 50

Armament

12 x 1 - 105/42 SK L/45 C/11, 2 - 500 TT (beam), 120 mines

Complement

354



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<i>Midilli</i> 1914
Midilli 1914


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<i>Midilli </i>1915
Midilli 1915


Project history

The German cruiser Breslau from 16 August 1914 served under the Turkish flag, with German command and crew as the Turkish Midilli. She served as the inseparable 'little sister' of Goeben alias Yavuz Sultan Selim.

Modernizations

1916: - 2 x 1 - 105/42; + 2 x 1 - 149/42 SK L/45 C/09

1917: - 10 x 1 - 105/42; + 6 x 1 - 149/42 SK L/45 C/09

Naval service

Midilli took bow splinter damage from the Russian battleship Imperatritsa Maria on 22 July and mined at the sea of Azov afterwards. First mined on 18 July 1915 by a Russian mine near Kata Burnu, salvaged and repaired, again mined and sunk on 20 January 1918 by 5 British mines off Imbros. Her stern was blown off and she sank 30 minutes from the first detonation with the loss of two thirds of her 370 crew.