Launch of the Turkish battleship Reshadieh at Vickers’ Works in Barrow on 3rd September 1913. She was subsequently seized by the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War One, which was regarded as one of the reasons that Turkey entered the war on the side of the Central Powers, and renamed HMS Erin.

Launch of the Turkish battleship Reshadieh at Vickers’ Works in Barrow on 3rd September 1913. She was subsequently seized by the Royal Navy at the outbreak of World War One, which was regarded as one of the reasons that Turkey entered the war on the side of the Central Powers, and renamed HMS Erin.

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