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The Story Of Battlecruiser TCG Yavuz / SMS
Goeben
The
happy peaceful years of Yavuz After
the world war, Yavuz
was the only German built battlecruiser on service.
The other battlecruisers were gone at Scapa Flow base, because of
sinking
themselves after a secret "suicide" order. Yavuz
also saw the WWII years, but Turkey never entered to this war. So there
wasn' t any risk for this mighty battlecruiser
and she lived a happy
life while
serving for the Turkish Navy as flagship. Her
single mission of sorrow was
transporting the great founder of modern Turkey,
M. Kemal Ataturk' s
dead
body with a funeral, after his death in 1938. During
the rest of her life, Yavuz entered
to many exercises and gone under
some refits ( 1930, 1938 and 1950 ) but in the late 1960' s she began to
show
her age due to passed years load.
The
end of a honorable career As
being the flagship of the Turkish Navy, Yavuz
served for many years. She
had a honorful & glorious life. Turkish people were
calling the mighty warship
as "Glorious
Yavuz". She was
so beatiful and powerful. But after a
fifty years
of active career she began to show her
age. The fuel of Yavuz
was coal and
during the 50' s most of the warships of the world
were using fuel oil or diesel
oil instead of coal. In the late 1960' s the
government authorities thought that,
her economic life was over. Also, there
were some changes about modern
warships, sea battle strategies and weapons.
Many people were believing
that the battlecruiser or battleship age was over too. Later,
Yavuz
uncommissioned and put out of service. But there
was a death
decision waiting for her. Some authorities decided to give the ship to
breakers
and they sold the battlecruiser. The breakers scrapped the ship in 1976. I
certainly believe that, this decision was a big
mistake. Because of being the
last battlecruiser of the world, a memorial of the
dreadnought age, she could
be preserved as a living museum. Yavuz
was the last battlecruiser of the world
Sadly, it never happened.. Yavuz
is a memorial now, for every Turkish battleship
lover. We all bless her
great, honorful memory. Her memory will live
forever. We shall never forget
our glorious battlecruiser.. Goodbye Yavuz...
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