Despite having been recently modernized, the Ottoman fleet was in no condition to challenge the powerful Italian fleet during the Italo-Turkish War of 1911–1912, and the bulk of the Ottoman fleet remained in port. Italian cruisers sank one rebuilt ironclad, , in the Battle of Beirut. In the First Balkan War, which broke out before the war with Italy ended, a Greek torpedo boat sank "Feth-i Bülend" in Salonika. In 1913, "Asar-i Tevfik" ran aground off the coast of Bulgaria; wave action coupled with Bulgarian artillery fire destroyed the ship. took part in two major naval actions against the Greek fleet, the Battle of Elli in December 1912 and the Battle of Lemnos in January 1913, both of which were Ottoman defeats. By the outbreak of World War I in 1914, only "Mesudiye" served in an active capacity; the other surviving vessels had been reduced to secondary roles like training ships and floating barracks. In December 1914, "Mesudiye" was sunk by a British submarine in the Dardanelles. After the chaos of the Greco-Turkish War of 1919–1922 subsided, the fleet discarded the ironclads remaining in inventory. The last vessel, , which had been converted into a depot ship for submarines, was scrapped in 1932.