Hamidiye was an Ottoman cruiser that saw extensive action during the Balkan Wars and World War I.Initially named Abdül Hamid, it was launched on 25 September 1903 in England, weighed 3,805 tons, had a draught of 4.8m, was 112m long and was named after the Ottoman Sultan Abdül Hamid.. 27.01.1915:

For the Turks the only ship that showed any aggressive spirit was the cruiser Hamidieh built by Armstrongs and delivered by Tennyson d’Eyncourt nine years earlier. The follow ing communication from the General Staff of the Russian army In the Cau casus was Issued today: "November 20 the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh, followed by a flotilla of torpedo-boats appeared off Tuapse, hurling 125 projectiles into the neigh borhood. The Turks lost one of their few major warships when light (or protected) cruiser "Medjidiye" in company with the "Hamidieh" and four torpedo boats sailed to bombard Odessa. On January 6, 1915, the Russian Black Sea fleet ran into the Breslau and the Hamidieh and damaged them both in a running fight.

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PETROGRAD, Nov. 2S. Cruiser Hamidieh Detailed for Panama Canal Opening. TURKISH WARSHIP COMING.
The Hamidiye regiments (literally meaning "belonging to Hamid", full official name Hamidiye Hafif Süvari Alayları, Hamidiye Light Cavalry Regiments) were well-armed, irregular, mainly Sunni Kurdish, but also Turkish, Circassian, Turkmen, Yörük and Arab cavalry formations that operated in the south eastern provinces of the Ottoman Empire. An illustration of this is the situation in July 1915. After threatening to bombard the town of Novorossiysk unless it surrendered, the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh absconded with Russian Consulate officials and disappeared, and the cruiser Breslau bombarded Theodosia. ATHENS. On the 24th October 1914, a Brisbane Courier article revealed statements made by the Prime Minister, in relation to the internment of Germans and Austrians in Australia.

29. 176. The phone slipped out of my trembling hands. 15. 2. built armored cruiser Averoff, which was handled aggressively throughout the contract. HAMIDIEH'S FEATS AROUSING WONDER; The Turkish Cruiser Has Made a Remarkable Record in the Present War. The Russian artillery imme diately replied effectively. The protected cruiser Medjidieh (a similar ship to the Hamidieh although less mechanically reliable) was a more active participant in this sortie, scouting for the heavy ships. 08-10.01.1915: Operation with the Turkish cruiser Hamidieh, pursuit by the Russian cruisers Kagul and Pamiat' Merkuria.

Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye in 1913.. Mr. Balfour in a letter to a correspondent announces that the losses of German … at dawn of the 24th, Breslau engages the Russian steamer Atos. He was afraid and has slipped away from us. Breslau had hit a mine while going out to escort a convoy and was out of action for months.

106. Operations against Russians ships and bases in the Black Sea, including a battle against the Russian battleship Rostislav. After a short engagement the Medjidieh was put to flight, and the transport sunk. 37. "A rather interesting American buried in the British cemetery at Uskudar is Ransford D. Bucknam who brought the Turkish cruiser HAMIDIEH from Cramps shipyards in Philadelphia, where it was being refitted, to Istanbul.
This left only Goeben, an old Turkish cruiser Hamidieh, and some torpedo boats to act as escorts.