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Description: | View from the bow of the gunboat HMS FIREFLY looking aft towards the ship's superstructure showing the Turkish nameplate SULIMAN PAK by which the gunboat was know after its capture on 1 December 1915. FIREFLY was retaken by the British on 26 February 1917 following a brisk fight on the Tigris with British gunboats commanded by Captain Wilfrid Nunn. | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | Mesopotamia 1914-1918 Royal Navy 1914-1918 Ottoman Empire FIREFLY (HMS) Royal Navy Naval Warfare First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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