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Dardanelles: operations 19 February to 17 March 1915, Report of Vice Admiral (paper...
Catalogue reference: ADM 137/38
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- 1915
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Dardanelles: operations 19 February to 17 March 1915, Report of Vice Admiral (paper M 02658/15).
Pages 6-11: Covering letter No 49 dated 17 March 1915 from Vice Admiral Commanding Eastern Mediterranean Squadron (Vice Admiral Carden). Report is a narrative of events during the operations of the Allied and French Squadrons against the defences of the Dardanelles, reports of Flag Officers and Commanding Officers of the various ships. Officers recommended for service are named.
Pages 12-30: Enclosure 1. Narrative of events 19 Feb to 16 March 1915. Daily details given. In some cases hour by hour list of key events. Ships involved named. Geographical location of events given.
Pages 31-44: Enclosure 2. Orders for the forcing of the Dardanelles dated 14 Feb 1915. Memorandum No 49 issued by Vice Admiral SH Carden. Includes hand drawn sketch showing ship courses and bearings, instructions for aircraft, list of ships and pendant boards, notes on NID 838 Turkey coast defences.
Pages 45-46: Enclosure 3. Memorandum on economy of ammunition dated 22 Feb 1915. Memorandum No 7L.
Pages 47-48: Enclosure 4. Operation order No 1. 20 Feb 1915. Reduction of the forts at entrance to the Dardanelles will be continued on 21 February. Ships named with positions.
Pages 49-51: Enclosure 5. Operation order No 2. 3 March 1915. Bombardment of Chanak and forts on opposite shore. General plan. Sketch plan of course for ships spotting for HMS Queen Elizabeth.
Pages 52-53: Enclosure 6. Operation order No 3. 7 March 1915. Attack on the defences at the narrows. Sketch plan of manoeuvring areas for ships.
Pages 54-77: Enclosure 7. Ships reports 19 Feb 1915. Reports from HMS Triumph, HMS Inflexible, HMS Albion, HMS Wear, HMS Amethyst, HMS Grasshopper, HMS Colne, HMS Basilisk, HMS Grampus, and Suffren, Gaulois (French ships).
Pages 78-116: Enclosure 8. Ships reports 25 Feb 1915. Reports from HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Inflexible, HMS Agamemnon (includes 4 photographs of damage), HMS Albion, HMS Dublin, HMS Cornwallis, HMS Mosquito, and Suffren, Gaulois, Charlemagne (French ships).
Pages 117-148: Enclosure 9. Ships reports 26 Feb 1915. Reports from HMS Dublin, HMS Vengeance, HMS Irresistible, HMS Triumph, HMS Majestic, HMS Albion, HMS Kennet, HMS Chelmer, HMS Cornwallis, HMS Scorpion, HMS Jed.
Pages 149-183: Enclosure 10. Ships reports 1 March 1915. Reports from HMS Irresistible, HMS Triumph, HMS Majestic, HMS Albion, HMS Ocean, HMS Chelmer, HMS Basilisk, HMS Grasshopper, HMS Racoon, HMS Mosquito, HMS Dartmouth, HMS Wolverine, HMS Jed, HMS Grampus, HMS Renard.
Pages 184-202: Enclosure 11. Ships reports 2 March 1915. Reports from HMS Swiftsure, HMS Jed, HMS Cornwallis, HMS Canopus, HMS Chelmer, HMS Racoon.
Pages 203-233: Enclosure 12. Ships reports 3 March 1915. Reports from Second in Command, HMS Ark Royal including flying orders, HMS Amethyst, HMS Dublin, HMS Wolverine, HMS Sapphire, HMS Albion, HMS Renard, HMS Grampus, HMS Triumph, HMS Irresistible, HMS Prince George. (Page 216 sketch of Dikili).
Pages 234-291: Enclosure 13. Ships reports 4 March 1915. Reports from Second in Command, HMS Canopus, HMS Majestic, HMS Agamemnon, Brigadier General Charles Trotman RMLI Commanding RM Special Service Force, Major HD Palmer RMLI, RM Special Service Force order, Casualty list for Plymouth Battalion, HMS Dublin, HMS Amethyst, HMS Lord Nelson, HMS Ocean, HMS Welland, HMS Inflexible, HMS Cornwallis, HMS Scorpion, HMS Renard, HMS Irrisistable, HMS Ark Royal including flying orders.
Pages 292-314: Enclosure 14. Ships reports 5 March 1915. Report on indirect firing from HMS Queen Elizabeth on Forts 13 and 17. Reports from Second in Command, HMS Canopus, HMS Welland, Queen Elizabeth, HMS Agamemnon, HMS Ark Royal including flying orders, HMS Prince George, HMS Racoon, HMS Inflexible.
Pages 315-339: Enclosure 15. Ships reports 6 March 1915. Report on indirect bombardment on Fort 20 by HMS Queen Elizabeth. Reports from Second in Command, HMS Majestic, HMS Prince George, HMS Lord Nelson, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Vengeance, HMS Ocean, HMS Albion, HMS Amethyst, HMS Agamemnon, HMS Kennet, HMS Dartmouth, and Suffren (French ship).
Pages 340-365: Enclosure 16. Ships reports 7 March 1915. Reports from HMS Agamemnon, HMS Lord Nelson, HMS Amethyst, HMS Wolverine, HMS Renard, HMS Grampus, HMS Colne, HMS CHelmer, HMS Wear, HMS Dublin.
Pages 366-387: Enclosure 17. Ships reports 8 March 1915. Reports from Second in Command, HMS Vengeance, HMS Queen Elizabeth, HMS Cornwallis, HMS Canopus, HMS Irresistible, HMS Amethyst, HMS Ark Royal including flying orders, HMS Dublin, HMS Amethyst, HMS Wolverine, HMS Renard, HMS Grampus, HMS Colne, HMS Chelmer.
Pages 388-401: Enclosure 18. Ships reports 9 March 1915. Reports from HMS Irresistible, HMS Albion, HMS Prince George, HMS Grampus, HMS Amethyst, HMS Basilisk, HMS Grasshopper, HMS Racoon, HMS Mosquito, HMS Kennet, HMS Dublin.
Pages 402-420: Enclosure 19. Ships reports 10 March 1915. Reports from HMS Majestic, HMS Cornwallis, HMS Ocean, HMS Canopus, HMS Amethyst, HMS Basilisk, HMS Grasshopper, HMS Racoon, HMS Mosquito, HMS Jed, HMS Amethyst, HMS Dublin, HMS Ark Royal including flying orders.
Pages 421-430: Enclosure 20. Ships reports 11 March 1915. Reports from HMS Wolverine, HMS Scorpion, HMS Renard, HMS Grampus, HMS Usk, trawler Avon, HMS Irresistible.
Pages 431-438: Enclosure 21. Ships reports 12 March 1915. Reports from HMS Albion, HMS Prince George, HMS Amethyst, HMS Wolverine, HMS Scorpion, HMS Renard, HMS Grampus. (Enclosure 22. Ships reports 13 March 1915. Bound in HS Vol. 1089 pp 289/20-289/74).
Pages 440-450: Enclosure 23. Ships reports 14 March 1915. Reports from HMS Cornwallis, HMS Amethyst, HMS Basilisk, HMS Grasshopper, HMS Racoon, HMS Mosquito, Le Verrier, packet boat of HMS Majestic.
Pages 451-461: Enclosure 24. Ships reports 15 March 1915. Reports from HMS Prince George, HMS Canopus including report by Lieutenant William James Donohue on sweeping operations, HMS Vengeance including list of officers and men employed in clearing mine fields, flying orders, HMS Wolverine, HMS Renard, HMS Granpus, minesweepers.
Pages 462-467: Enclosure 25. Ships reports 16 March 1915. Reports from HMS Cornwallis, HMS Amethyst, HMS Wolverine, HMS Grampus, HMS Amethyst.
Pages 468-470: Admiralty minutes (paper M 02658/15). Report covers operations at the Dardanelles up until the time when Vice-Admiral Carden had to relinquish command owing to ill health.
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