 "Mesudiye" was thereafter assigned to the Reserve Division, which also included the rebuilt ironclad "Âsâr-ı Tevfik" and the torpedo cruiser .She did not see action during the conflict, since the Ottoman fleet spent the war in port.This was in part due to the rising tensions in the Balkans that presaged the Balkan Wars; the Ottomans kept their fleet in port so it could be prepared for the inevitable conflict.