During the Battle of Cape Sarych in November of 1914, the Turkish Yavuz Sultan Selim battlecruiser engaged a superior Russian fleet while sailing through mine-infested waters. To avoid getting sunk and be able to head back to Constantinople, Yavuz had to risk it and confront the Russians head-on.

It was before the beginning of World War 1 that Germany began developing a new type of battlecruiser to match the hegemony of the British Royal Navy. One of them was SMS Goeben, a Moltke-class battlecruiser that quickly proved her worth.

Transferred to the Ottoman Navy in 1914 and baptized as Yavuz Sultan Selim, the ship single-handedly kept the entire Russian and British ships at bay during the war. Usually outnumbered, outgunned, and outmanned, Yavuz always found a way to escape from her hunters while leaving behind a trail of destruction.

Still, getting away in one piece during that fateful day in the Black Sea was not going to be easy, but the seasoned German crew aboard Yavuz and their Ottoman allies were willing to make the ultimate sacrifice to keep fighting another day…

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