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Yarhisar Museum Ship is Türkiye’s first and only surface warship permanently placed on land as a museum. Built in 1964 at the Portland-Dragon shipyard in the United States for the Turkish Naval Forces, the vessel derives its name from the Ottoman Navy destroyer “Yarhisar,” which was sunk by British forces in the Sea of Marmara on 3 December 1915 during World War I. The ship, which flew the Turkish flag from 1965, served for 40 years as a patrol and reconnaissance vessel. It participated in the A