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Mahmudiye was a ship of the line of the Ottoman Navy. She was a three-masted three-decked 128-gunned sailing ship, which could perhaps be considered to be one of the few completed heavy-first rate battleships. Mahmudiye, with a roaring lion as the ship's figurehead, was intended to serve to reconstitute the morale of the nation after the loss of the fleet at the Battle of Navarino in 1827. The flagship was for many years the largest warship in the world. Mahmudiye (1829) She was constructed by the naval architect Mehmet Kalfa and the naval engineer Mehmet Efendi on the order of Mahmud II (reigned between 1808–1839) at Tersane-i Amire, the Imperial Shipyard, on the Golden Horn in Constantinople. The 201 × 56 kadem (1 kadem = 37.887 cm) or 76.15 m × 21.22 m (249.8 ft × 69.6 ft) ship of the line carried 1,280 sailors on board (kadem, which translates as "foot", is often misinterpreted as equivalent in length to one imperial foot, hence the wrongly converted dimensions of "201 × 56 ft, or 62 × 17 m" in some sources.) With the introduction of steam power in the end of the 1840s, it was considered to convert the pure sail-driven ship into a steamer. However, due to lack of the necessary space for the steam engine on board, the idea could not be realized. Mahmudiye participated in many important naval battles, including the Siege of Sevastopol (1854–1855) during the Crimean War (1854-1856) under the command of Admiral of the Fleet Kayserili Ahmet Pasha. She was honored with the title Gazi following her successful mission in Sevastopol. She was decommissioned in 1874 and broken up at the Imperial Shipyard. http://images.devs-o...Yzl-Bereich.png

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I don't know. It's possible that Greek rebels try to sink some Ottoman ships. But i have never hear something like this.

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 Navy in 1900 to the British shipbuilding company Armstrong Whitworth. It was laid down in Elswick, Newcastle, in April 1902; launched on 25 September 1903; its sea trials began on 17 December 1903; and it was commissioned in April 1904. It weighed 3,904 tons; was 112m long with a beam of 14.5m and a draught of 4.8m; and was named after the Ottoman Sultan Abdülhamid II. WEAPONS two 150 mm L/45 quick firing guns in individual towers front and rear. With an increase of 20 °, they reached a firing range of 13,350 m eight 120mm L/50 quick firing guns formed the other main armament these were six 3-pounder 47mm L/50 quick firing guns six 1-pounder 37mm quick firing guns and two 457mm torpedo tubes at the base of the bridge. crew: 302 man After the First World War, Hamidiye was rearmed; both types of primary guns were removed, and replaced with 5.9 in (15 cm) SK L/45 and 3 in (7.6 cm) SK L/50 Krupp guns. Hamidiye was powered by two sets of 4-cylinder triple expansion steam engines providing a top speed of 22.2 knots and carried a nominal complement of 400 (in 1904) and 355 (in 1915). Builder: Sir W. G. Armstrong, Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Newcastle http://images.devs-o...gy4-Bereich.png

WoW, that is a very nice ship. The chinese people were good sailor