With the construction of the floating drydock and the housing barracks by the German shipbuilding company Flender Werke, Gölcük Naval Shipyard was established in 1926.

[3] The maintenance facilities were extended in 1942 with various other buildings, such as a machine plant and foundry, stretching over a big swampland, a small lake and hazelnut orchard fields in Gölcük.

For this reason, the Turkish Navy's infrastructure, like shipyards and naval facilities at the Golden Horn and İstinye in Istanbul, were systematically relocated to Gölcük.

The 58.60 m (192.3 ft) long vessel was constructed in 16 months, named MT Gölcük after the shipyard, and launched on November 1, 1935, being also the first ship to be built in the Republican era.

[5] In 1980, an Ay class submarine with a displacement of 1,000 tons was constructed at the Gölcük Naval Shipyard, marking an important turning point in the Turkish shipbuilding history.