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Dardanelles: Attacking Turkey
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Occupation of Turkey - On the 10th, as a large Allied Fleet prepares to sail into the Dardanelles, and pass Constantinople into the Black Sea, they are preceeded by the British destroyer "Shark" and French "Mangini". These are the first Allied ships to reach Constantinople. On the 12th, the main fleet, after extensive minesweeping, passes through the Dardanelles, and anchors off the Turkish capital on the 13th.
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The ill fated Gallipoli expedition was preceded by an Allied operation that was to attempt to force a passage through the Dardanelles by naval forces alone. Constantinople could then be attacked and seized, forcing Turkey out of the war and allowing a secure supply route to Russia to be established. An Allied fleet, consisting of 14 pre-dreadnoughts, four old French battleships, a battlecruiser, and a super-dreadnought, under the command of Vice-Admiral Carden, was made ready at mudros Bay on Lemnos, 50 miles west of the Dardanelles.
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The photographs in this gallery are mainly from the collections of the Australian War Memorial and relate to the submarine warfare carried out by the Royal Navy against Turkey in the Dardanelles during the Gallipoli campaign of 1915. In those operations the Royal Australian Navy played a part though the allocation of the submarine AE2 to British naval forces.
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