Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye

Hamidiye was an Ottoman cruiser, first named Abdül Hamid. The Ottoman Navy ordered it in 1900 from the British shipbuilder Armstrong Whitworth, which laid it down at Elswick in April 1902 and launched it on 25 September 1903, and it was commissioned in April 1904. It displaced 3,904 tons, was 112 metres long, carried two 150 mm and eight 120 mm quick-firing guns, and was driven by two sets of triple expansion steam engines for a top speed of 22.2 knots. It saw extensive action in the Balkan Wars and the First World War. In the First Balkan War it was damaged at the Battle of Kaliakra by a Bulgarian torpedo boat and later sank the Greek armed merchant cruiser Macedonia at Syros. Used to train cadets from 1940, it was decommissioned in March 1947, served briefly as a museum ship at Istanbul from 1949 to 1951 and was sold for scrap in 1964.