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SMS Kurfürst Friedrich Wilhelm before it was sold to the Ottoman Empire
In the aftermath of the
Lemnos in the First Balkan War. At the start of the First World War, half of the battleships owned by the Ottoman Empire were still under construction in the UK, and were either scrapped or seized by the British in the early days of the conflict. The Ottomans turned to assistance from Germany, and it was the donation of German-built ships that paved the way for a military alliance with that country and the eventual Ottoman entry into the war. (Full list...
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