sentences:  The only commemorative military medal issued by the Ottomans for the Balkan Wars was the "Cruiser Hamidiye Medal 1913", which was given to each of the ship's 394 crew members.The ship was decommissioned in March 1947 after a service of training cadets since 1940.For a short while between 1949 and 1951, it was a museum ship anchored at the port of the Kabataş quarter in Istanbul, on the European shoreline of the Bosphorus.