[1] Peleng-i Derya was laid down in 1889 and launched and completed the following year at the Schiffswerft Germania AG shipyard in Kiel, Germany as part of the Peleng-i Deryâ class alongside her sister ship Nimet.

She was assessed at 980 GRT and had two triple expansion engines driving two screw propellers.

[1] Peleng-i Derya was bought by the Ottoman Navy in September 1896, but the six year old ship had not been equipped yet with any armaments.

As time went on, her condition worsened and she was decommissioned in 1913 before returning to service at the start of the First World War in September 1914.

[1] Peleng-i Derya was anchored in shallow water near Bakırköy Bay at Istanbul on 23 May 1915 when the British submarine HMS E11 torpedoed her without warning.