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    With The Fleet In The Dardanelles, Some Impressions Of Naval Men And Incidents During The Campaign In The Spring Of 1915
    With The Fleet In The Dardanelles, Some Impressions Of Naval Men And Incidents During The Campaign In The Spring Of 1915
    With The Fleet In The Dardanelles, Some Impressions Of Naval Men And Incidents During The Campaign In The Spring Of 1915
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    With The Fleet In The Dardanelles, Some Impressions Of Naval Men And Incidents During The Campaign In The Spring Of 1915

    By William Harold. D. Price and Sir Everard Fraser K.C.M.G.

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    As warfare ground to a halt in the static, bloody trenches of the Western Front in 1914, the Allied command sought to lever Germany’s Turkish allies out of the war. Although the British had but a small standing peacetime army, she possessed the largest fleet in the world, and planned to use the awesome power of her huge naval guns to blast a passage through the Turkish defences of the strait. Constantinople would thereby be threatened and Turkey forced to sue for peace. The plan was bold, ambitious and doomed to fail.

    As the confident fleet steamed up through the Mediterranean, Padre Price kept a diary of his experiences and anecdotes of the Jolly Tars. However, his notes are filled with danger and bloodshed as the fleet encounter the brave and stubborn shore batteries, taking its baptism of fire. Though gallant and bloodied by the shells of the enemy, the fleet could not force the passage - a fateful failure that would lead to the landings at Gallipoli and further allied failures.

    Author — Price, William Harold. D. 1917

    Preface — Sir Everard Fraser K.C.M.G. (1859-1922)

    Text taken, whole and complete, from the edition published in London, A. Melrose, ltd. 1915

    Original Page Count – xvi and 124 pages.

    Illustrations — 6 Illustrations.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherLucknow Books
    Release dateJan 15, 2013
    ISBN9781782891048
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      With The Fleet In The Dardanelles, Some Impressions Of Naval Men And Incidents During The Campaign In The Spring Of 1915 - William Harold. D. Price

       This edition is published by PICKLE PARTNERS PUBLISHING—www.picklepartnerspublishing.com

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      Text originally published in 1915 under the same title.

      © Pickle Partners Publishing 2013, all rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted by any means, electrical, mechanical or otherwise without the written permission of the copyright holder.

      Publisher’s Note

      Although in most cases we have retained the Author’s original spelling and grammar to authentically reproduce the work of the Author and the original intent of such material, some additional notes and clarifications have been added for the modern reader’s benefit.

      We have also made every effort to include all maps and illustrations of the original edition the limitations of formatting do not allow of including larger maps, we will upload as many of these maps as possible.

      WITH THE FLEET

      IN THE DARDANELLES

      SOME IMPRESSIONS OF NAVAL MEN AND INCIDENTS DURING THE CAMPAIGN IN THE SPRING OF 1915

      BY

      WILLIAM HAROLD PRICE

      Sometime Chaplain of H.M.S. Triumph

      WITH A PREFACE BY

      SIR EVERARD FRASER, K.C.M.G.

      TABLE OF CONTENTS

      Contents

      TABLE OF CONTENTS 4

      DEDICATION 6

      PREFACE 7

      AUTHOR’S NOTE 8

      LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS 9

      FOREWORD 10

      I—IN CLASSIC WATERS 11

      A PAGEANT OF EMPIRE 12

      THE FIRST CASTLES OF EUROPE AND ASIA 13

      II—THE FORE-CROSS PASSAGE 14

      CLEARING FOR ACTION 14

      THE FIRST GUN 14

      THE TRANSMISSION STATION 15

      AT THE WHEEL 15

      III—HELL’S GATES 17

      A SPECTACULAR SCENE 17

      DELIBERATE FIRE AT CLOSE RANGE 17

      THE FORTS IN FLAMES 18

      IV—THE PRESS BUREAU 20

      THE FLEET IN A STORM 20

      A FLOATING MINE? 20

      V—SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS 22

      THE NARROWS 22

      FORT DARDANUS 23

      A FEARFUL AND WONDERFUL SCENE 23

      VI—OURSELVES AS OTHERS SEE US 25

      SEARCH FOR COVER 25

      A HELLISH DIN 26

      VII—THE TROGLODYTES 28

      A SING-SONG IN  B" CASEMATE 28

      THE COUNT 29

      VIII—PEACE AND WAR ON A SUNDAY 31

      FORT HAMIDIEH HOTLY ENGAGED 31

      A SHELL 32

      THE MEN IN THE CASEMATES 32

      IX.—A DAY AND A NIGHT ON THE DEEP 35

      THE FORCE OF A HEAVY GUN 35

      FINDING THE RANGE 35

      X—A NIGHTMARE 37

      BAD NEWS IN THE EARLY MORNING 37

      THE CONCOMITANT OF FUNK 37

      XI—THE HEALING MEDICINE OF MIRTH 39

      CHEERY SOULS THESE 40

      XII—A MAKE AND MEND 42

      S.Q.B.’s AND B.Y.S.’s 42

      CASEY JONES 43

      XIII—A PREVIOUS ATTEMPT 45

      OFF CONSTANTINOPLE 45

      FAILURE OF THE ATTEMPT 46

      AMPHIBIOUS WARFARE 46

      TIPS FROM TSINGTAO 46

      EFFECTIVENESS OF THE MARINES 47

      DEDICATION

      TO THE CAPTAIN, OFFICERS, AND SHIP’S COMPANY OF H.M.S. TRIUMPH

      THE AUTHOR VENTURES TO DEDICATE THESE PAGES: A MEMENTO OF MANY DAYS AND NIGHTS SPENT WITH THE EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN SQUADRON DURING THE ATTACK ON THE DARDANELLES IN 1915

      PREFACE

      To the Reverend W. H. Price,

      Sub-Dean of Holy Trinity Cathedral, Shanghai.

      H.M. CONSULATE-GENERAL, May, 1915.

      MY DEAR PADRE,

      I do not recall your presence in the group which, after evening service on the Sunday before the war, watched the Yarmouth, crowded with the complements from our river gunboats, leave her moorings off the Bund and slip away through the fading light to meet the Fleet outside.

      Our speculations of suspense at that time held no idea so fantastic as your doing a spell as naval chaplain and seeing the real thing. But you and we had in common, even in those early days, the desire of service and sacrifice for the common weal, which has since been realised in greater or less degree, directly or indirectly, by the congregation that lent you to H.M.S. Triumph, sure that you and we were thus answering the call of duty.

      I confess to an innocuous envy of the grand experience you enjoyed. Its poignancy is allayed by reading this record, which stamps itself faithful. The British public, prone to grousing in China as at home, has found a pretext for indulging its weakness in the scarcity of authentic news of the doings of our men at war. Here you give them an intimate picture of a battleship engaged in the sternest operations of war. To one of your readers, whose voyages as guest in

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