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Description: | H.H. Apr. 24.15
Spotting for Talbot + Minerva, shelling and destroying Turkish barracks, etc. (knocked about before + gone completely to
ash now.)
image: A view from the stern of HMS Manica towards three Royal Navy warships, HMS Minerva, HMS Talbot and HMS Ark Royal from left to right respectively. An observation balloon in the sky is attached to HMS Manica, which is used to spot enemy positions on the coastline visible in the background. These positions are under bombardment from the three warships, who emit smoke from their guns and funnels.
Below the drawing Hillier describes the context in handwritten text: 'Our last skirmishing action before the great
battle. This being over satisfactorily we beat about in the "Aegean" until keeping our rendezvous, place and time, when all is truly in the melting pot. A calm sea and a beautiful evening. Moon only about half full but too bright for our liking, while it lasted. Then dark
enough. IN the night the troops from Tenedos are on their way here, and the A & N.Z. Corps from Mudros'.
Optimised | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Subjects: | aircraft carrier (1937) MINERVA (HMS) Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Landscape seascape Gallipoli 1915-1916 Royal Naval Air Service shipping ARK ROYAL (HMS) Royal Navy 1914-1918 Dardanelles Action Ottoman Empire Gallipoli 1915 Royal Navy TALBOT (HMS) Artillery MANICA (HMS) First World War | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Hillier, Herbert | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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