There aren't a lot of ships from any era that can claim to have had a career as wild and varied as that of the German-built battlecruiser Goeben. Her sister Moltke spent her career in Hipper's battlecruiser squadron, seeing action against their opposite numbers in the Grand Fleet on a couple of occasions. Goeben, however, was detached along with a light cruiser (Breslau) to the Mediterranean, ostensibly to raid. In fact, she ended up being a major catalyst to the Ottoman Empire joining World War One.
When the British realized war was on the horizon, they cancelled orders for several foreign-built ships and instead took the ships on as their own. This included a pair of battleships being built for the Ottomans- a decision that went over poorly- so when the Germans seized the opportunity by sending a pair of modern warships over and saying 'here, join up with us and these are yours!*', the Ottomans were quite happy. The ship, renamed Yawuz Sultan e Selim (later shortened to Yawuz) started a war with Russia by bombarding Sevastopl (with her German crew still aboard, in Turkish uniforms), and continued to have many adventures throughout the remainder of the war. The link to her Wikipedia page below is worth your time to read- I can't do this justice here.
The ship was retained after the end of the war, and continued to serve for many years after- it wasn't until the 1970s that she finally was scrapped. It's an amazing career, one of the 20th century's most influential and yet little-appreciated ships.