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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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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.