This unusual map of the western Mediterranean shows the British pursuit of the German cruisers Goeben and Breslau.
This series of maps were originally published in Julian S. Corbett's Naval Operations of the Great War. The charts were then adopted by the Turkish Admiralty and translated, probably shortly after the foundation of the modern Turkish state.

This example chronicles the manoeuvring of the cruisers Goeben and Breslau in August 1914, as they evaded a British fleet in the Mediterranean, sailed through the Dardanelles and ultimately reached Constantinople, where they handed themselves over to the Turkish Navy.

Later, this was cited as one of the key actions which encouraged the Ottoman Empire to join Germany to become one of the Central Powers opposing the British and the French.

Original colour. [MED2402]