"The Battlecruiser That Wouldn't Die" Topic

"On Aug. 1, 1914, the German battlecruiser Goeben was taking on coal, preparing to flee the Italian port of Brindisi in order to escape a pursuing British Royal Navy squadron. Thus began an epic pursuit across the Mediterranean, with effects that reverberated across World War I.

In the years prior to the war, Germany deployed naval squadrons around the world to protect its burgeoning colonial empire. War came so quickly that some of these squadrons were trapped in unfriendly waters, chased by superior British forces.

Goeben and the light cruiser Breslau amounted to a respectable, if not formidable, capability. Germany had two allies in the Mediterranean—Italy and Austria—but Berlin worried the two traditional enemies might fight each other, instead…"
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Amicalement
Armand

Broken up for scrap 1973!

She must have been one of the last capital ships of the her era to go.

Mac,

actually, if I'm not mistaken, the honor of being the last capital ship of her era is the U.S.S. Texas, and she's still with us on display in Corpus Christi, Texas:

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usstexasbb35.com

Alas, for the Yavuz/Goeben that the Turkish government didn't see fit to preserve her as we did the Texas….

Further, I hope we can save the U.S.S. Olympia, which is among the very last predreadnought warships still in existence:

facebook.com/CruiserOlympia

Leland R. Erickson
Metal Express
metal-express.net

The Georgios Averof, a Pisa class armored armored cruiser purchased by Greece in 1910, is a museum at Athens.Interesting she is still a commissioned vessel of the Greek navy and flies a rear-admiral's flag.

There are still sum smaller ships still kicking around from the First War.

In Belfast(NI)is HMS Caroline a "C" Light cruiser the last ship that was at Jutland only decommissioned from the RN in 2011.
They have funding to start restoring her.

The Russians have the cruiser Aurora in St Petersburg.