Peyk-i Şevket was a torpedo cruiser of the Ottoman Navy, built in 1906–1907, the lead ship of her class, which included one other vessel.

Repairs lasted until 1917, and in the final year of the war she served in the Black Sea, escorting troop ships to the Caucasus.

Renamed Peyk in 1923, the ship continued in service with the Turkish Navy following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire until 1944, when she was decommissioned.

The engines were rated at 5,100 indicated horsepower (3,800 kW) for a top speed of 21 knots (39 km/h; 24 mph); Peyk-i Şevket had a cruising radius of 3,240 nautical miles (6,000 km; 3,730 mi).

[3] At the outbreak of the Italo-Turkish War in September 1911, Peyk-i Şevket was in the Red Sea; on 2 October, she encountered the Italian torpedo cruiser Aretusa and the gunboat Volturno off Al Hudaydah.

On 20 November, Peyk-i Şevket and the battlecruiser Yavuz Sultan Selim, formerly the German Goeben, for a patrol off the Bosporus.

In December, the ship joined Yavuz Sultan Selim, the ex-German light cruiser Midilli, and her sister Berk-i Satvet to escort a convoy of four troop transports to Rize.

On 22 June 1915, Peyk-i Şevket was nearly torpedoed by the British submarine HMS E12 in the Sea of Marmara while she was transporting ammunition to the Ottoman garrison at Çanakkale.

[8] The ship was renamed Peyk in 1923 following the end of the Turkish War of Independence, which saw the Republic of Turkey replace the old Ottoman Empire.

[2] At the time, the ship was one of a handful of major warships still in active service, after more than a decade of near continuous war for the Turkish fleet.