Comments | apollinaris: For many years the largest warship in the world

apollinaris

For many years the largest warship in the world

Mar 05, 2010 21:46

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Mahmudiye - Ottoman & British fleets contrasted adm_beattys_hat May 21 2010, 05:13:09 UTC

By a strange coincidence, I am working on a brief website about the Ottoman steam navy -- actually a new module of my site BigBadBattleships.com which covers all the European navies plus the American & Japanese fleets ( ... )

Re: Mahmudiye - Ottoman & British fleets contrasted apollinaris May 21 2010, 08:24:16 UTC

Thank you for your comments.

I did not compare fleets, but ships: "the finest, biggest, most powerful warships" and this Turkish warship "was for many years the largest warship in the world."

The image is a scan from a book and I am not the publisher.

The best of British luck with BigBadBattleships.com

Re: Mahmudiye - Ottoman & British fleets contrasted adm_beattys_hat May 21 2010, 14:09:01 UTC

Thank you. Yes, it was a beautiful ship, and that is a nice, colorful painting. I/m just now writing up the sorties of he HAMIDIEH in WWI - high adventure! The captain was to have commanded the SULTAN OSMAN (which was commandeered by the British and sailed as HMS AGINCOURT) -- certainly a plum command with 7 gun turretsand palatial quarters for the crew. He did a brilliant job of raiding with just a little cruiser, though. He lived until 1964.

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