Tonnage:  10,060 tonnes

Length: 115.7 m.

Beam: 19.5 m.

Draught: 7.6 m.

Engines: 2 triple 3 cyl, 10,110 hp, Vulcan

Speed: 10 kts.

Armament: 4-280 mm L/40, Krupp

2-280 mm L/35, Krupp

6-88 mm L/35 quick firing guns, Krupp

3 torpedo tubes 450 mm, Schwartzkopf

Record:

- Launched on 14 December 1891.

- Commissioned by the German Navy on 5 June 1894, named as SMS Weissenburg.

- Sold to the Turkish Navy in August 1910 and renamed as Turgut Reis.

- Took part in the Balkan War.

- On 18 February 1915, Turgut Reis anchored off the coast in the Dardanelles to be used as a floating battery.

- On 18 March 1915, when the Allied fleet attempted to force the Dardanelles, Turgut Reis was anchored at Maydos. No action was taken.

- On 25 April 1915, Turgut Reis shelled the British landings in Gallipoli.

- On 5 June 1915, Turgut Reis retırned to Istanbul after a shell exploded on deck. It was laid up at the Golden Horn until February 1918, when it assisted in Yavuz's salvage.

- Laid up at Istanbul on 30 October 1918.

- Used by the Turkish Navy as a stationary school ship betwen 1924-1933.

- Decommissioned in 1933 and turned into barrak vessel for dockyard workers.

- Scrapped in 1953.

Source: Ahmet Güleryüz collection