In 1910, the first and thus far only (modern) submarine operated by the Ottoman Navy, Abdül Hamid (also Abdülhamid), was scrapped. The Ottoman Empire did not have any submarines going into World War I but obtained one operational submarine during the war. , was the former French , which ran aground in the Dardanelles on 30 October 1915 and was captured by the Turks. She was returned to France in 1918.
