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The naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign (17 February 1915 – 9 January 1916) took place against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War.Ships of the Royal Navy, French Marine nationale, Imperial Russian Navy (Российский императорский флот) and the Royal Australian Navy, attempted to force a passage through the Dardanelles Straits, a narrow, 41-mile ...
The terms of the Act required that at least one naval and one military officer from the retired lists serve on each Commission. Historian John Grigg writes that the inquiries were “an enormous waste of busy people’s time”. Maurice Hankey had to spend 174 hours preparing material for the Dardanelles Commission. Grigg argues that just the ...
The naval bombardment began at 5.15 on 25 April 1915 by the French battleships Jauréguiberry and Henri IV, the French armoured cruiser Jeanne d’Arc and the Russian cruiser Askold. The target of the bombardment was the village of Kumkale at 39°59′N 26°11′E / 39.983°N 26.183°E / 39.983; 26.1
HMS E11 was an E-class submarine of the Royal Navy launched on 23 April 1914. E11 was one of the most successful submarines in action during the 1915 naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign, sinking over 80 vessels of all sizes in three tours of the Sea of Marmara.
The Dardanelles operation was a failed assault in 1807 by the Royal Navy against the coastal fortifications of Constantinople. The operation was part of the Anglo-Turkish War. In 1806, the French envoy Sebastiani had been dispatched to Constantinople with orders to bring about the Ottoman Empire's re-entry into the Napoleonic Wars.
HMS Goliath was part of the Allied fleet in the naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign, supporting the landing at Cape Helles on 25 April 1915. On the night of 12–13 May 1915 Goliath was stationed, along with HMS Cornwallis and screened by five destroyers, in Morto Bay off Cape Helles , in an effort to relieve the pressure on the French ...
Battle of the Dardanelles (1657) During other conflicts: Dardanelles operation, during the Anglo-Turkish War (1807–1809) Battle of the Dardanelles (1807), during the Russo-Turkish War (1806–1812) Battle of Elli (1912), during the First Balkan War; Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign (1915–16), during the First World War
The naval operations in the Dardanelles ended with the failure on 18 March, to push a naval force through the straits, during which three battleships were sunk and four capital ships were severely damaged by naval mines laid along the Asiatic shore.