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HMS Erin (1913)
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(contracted; show full)ish Navy had been pro-Britain — the Army having been pro-German. How far it helped put Turkey (and its [[Ottoman Empire]]) into the war on the side of [[Germany]] and the [[Austro-Hungarian Empire]] against the [[Triple Entente]] of Britain, [[France]] and [[Russia]] (29 October 1914) is debatable. To capitalize on this, Germany made a gift to Turkey of the [[battlecruiser]] [[SMS Goeben|SMS ''Goeben'']] and of the [[light cruiser]] [[SMS Breslau|SMS ''Breslau'']].


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== Seizure ==
When on 27 July 1914 Ottoman Commander [[Rauf Orbay]] went to Newcastle on behalf of the Ottoman government to arrange for transportation of ''Sultan Osman I'', the First Lord of Admiralty [[Winston Churchill]] was aware that an embargo would mean a diplomatic crisis but he could not take the risk that these battleships would be engaged against the Royal Navy.{{Fact|date=October 2008}}

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[[Category:World War I battleships of the United Kingdom]]

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