Italo-Turkish War order of battle: Ottoman Navy

This list includes fleet organisations of the Ottoman Navy during the Italo-Turkish War.

Fleet organisation on October 29, 1911

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On October 29, 1911, the Ottoman Navy was structured as follows:[1]

Fleet (Commander: Kalyon Kaptanı Tahir)

Flotilla (Korvet Kaptanı Hakkı)

Smyrna Detachment (Yüzbaşı Hikmet)

Salonika Detachment (Korvet Kaptanı Bekir Reşid)

Tripolitania Detachment (Korvet Kaptanı Ahmer)

  • Seyyda-i Derya

Lake Skadar Detachment (Yüzbaşı Yahya)

  • Gür, İşkodra

Preveza Detachment (Korvet Kaptanı Tevfik)

Red Sea Detachment (Korvet Kaptanı Hamid)

Beirut Detachment (no naval commander)

Sources

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  1. ^ Bernd Langensiepen, Ahmet Güleryüz, The Ottoman Steam Navy, 1828-1923, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1995, ISBN 1-55750-659-0, p. 194.