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Description: | Photocopy of a contemporary ts account (7pp) written by an RNR officer serving in the battleship HMS TRIUMPH at the Dardanelles describing how, after the submarine HMS E15 had run ashore at Kephez Point, Gallipoli on 17 April 1915, he had volunteered for service in one of the two picket boats sent from TRIUMPH and the battleship HMS MAJESTIC on the night of 18-19 April to try and destroy E15 by torpedo and recording how, after a very hazardous approach to the stranded submarine under heavy Turkish shellfire, E15 was hit by a torpedo from the other picket boat, whose crew then had to be rescued by his picket boat because it was sinking, and, still under fire, the remaining picket boat then successfully returned to MAJESTIC and TRIUMPH with the loss of just one man from the two boats.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Brooke-Webb, A C | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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