İskenderun Naval Museum is a museum in

İskenderun İskenderun ( ar, الإسكندرونة, el, Αλεξανδρέττα "Little Alexandria"), historically known as Alexandretta and Scanderoon, is a city in Hatay Province on the Mediterranean coast of Turkey. Names The city was founded as Ale ...

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

. The museum is situated on Atatürk Boulevard, İskenderun

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(district) of Hatay Province, at . The building was purchased by the

Turkish Naval Forces The Turkish Naval Forces ( tr, ), or Turkish Navy ( tr, ) is the naval warfare service branch of the Turkish Armed Forces. The modern naval traditions and customs of the Turkish Navy can be traced back to 10 July 1920, when it was establis ...

in 1942. Till 2008 it was used as an office. On 26 June 2009, it was opened as a naval museum. There are six exhibition halls. The first hall is the memorial hall of Tayfur Sökmen (1892-1980), who was the president of the short-lived

Hatay Republic Hatay State ( tr, Hatay Devleti; french: État du Hatay; ar , دولة هاتاي ''Dawlat Hatāy''), also known informally as the Republic of Hatay ( ar , جمهورية هاتاي ''Jumhūriyya Hatāy''), was a transitional political entity t ...

, which was soon merged into Turkey in 1939. The second hall is the memorial hall of Şükrü Kanatlı (1893-1954) who was the first Turkish commander in Hatay. The third hall is named after Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa.

Barbaros Hayreddin Barbarossa ( ar, خير الدين بربروس, Khayr al-Din Barbarus, original name: Khiḍr; tr, Barbaros Hayrettin Paşa), also known as Hızır Hayrettin Pasha, and simply Hızır Reis (c. 1466/1478 – 4 July 1546), was an O ...

(1478-1546) was the famous Ottoman admiral of the 16th century. The fourth hall is Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Paşa Hall.

Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha Cezayirli Gazi Hasan Pasha or Hasan Pasha of Algiers (1713 – 19 March 1790) was an Ottoman Grand Admiral (Kapudan Pasha) (1770–90), Grand Vizier (1790), and general in the late 18th century. Primary life He is known to have been brought ...

(1713 (?)-1790) was an able admiral of the 18th century. The fifth hall is Savarona Hall.

MV Savarona The MV ''Savarona'' (also sometimes M/Y, for motor yacht) is the presidential yacht of the Republic of Turkey. She was the largest in the world when launched February 28, 1931, and remains, with a length of 136 m (446 ft), one of the ...

was formerly the Turkish presidential yacht in which Atatürk, the founder of Turkey spent his last days in 1938. The sixth hall is named after

Rauf Orbay Hüseyin Rauf Orbay (27 July 1881 – 16 July 1964) was an Ottoman-born Turkish naval officer, statesman and diplomat of Abkhazian origin. Biography Hüseyin Rauf was born in Constantinople in 1881 to an Abkhazian family. As an officer i ...

(1880-1964) who was the commander of the

Ottoman cruiser Hamidiye ''Hamidiye''The name is also sometimes rendered as ''Hamidieh'' in English; see Gardiner and Gray, p. 389, and Halpern, p. 228. Also it was rendered Hamidié in French. See was an Ottoman Empire, Ottoman cruiser that saw extensive action during ...

and one of the last naval Ministers of the Ottoman Empire. He was also an active figure during the establishment of the Turkish Republic. Official Atatürk page
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