The Peyk-i Şevket class was a pair of torpedo cruisers built for the Ottoman Navy by the German shipyard Germaniawerft in 1906–1907.

Both ships took a more active role in the Balkan Wars, frequently providing gunfire to support to Ottoman troops in East Thrace.

During World War I, both ships served in the Black Sea, where they conducted patrols, escorted convoys, and attacked Russian ports.

In January 1915, Berk-i Satvet was mined off the Bosporus, and seven months later, Peyk-i Şevket was torpedoed by the British submarine HMS E11 in the Sea of Marmara.

[2] The two ships were authorized in 1903, and were ordered from the Krupp-owned Germaniawerft shipyard in Germany, as part of a deal to modernize the elderly ironclad Âsâr-ı Tevfik.

The two cruisers were part of a naval reconstruction program that began in the late 1890s, following the Greco-Turkish War of 1897, in which the Ottoman fleet had been unable to play an active role.

They were armed with a pair of 105 mm (4.1 in) quick-firing 40-caliber guns that were placed in shielded single mounts on the forecastle and quarterdeck.

[8] Both ships saw combat during the First Balkan War in 1913, primarily in supporting Ottoman forces ashore in East Thrace.

The ships provided gunfire support to the Ottoman army holding the Çatalca line in defense of the capital at Constantinople.

Peyk-i Şevket returned to the Sea of Marmara during the Dardanelles Campaign in 1915, where she carried munitions to the defending Ottoman forces.