List of Allied warships that served at Gallipoli
This is a list of Allied warships that served at the Battle of Gallipoli in 1915.
Royal Navy warships
All British warships which served in the Dardanelles region received the battle honour Dardanelles 1915 after the war
- Seaplane carriers
- Battleships
- Battlecruisers
- Indefatigable
- Indomitable
- Inflexible (mined and damaged on March 18, +40 men killed or drowned)
- Pre-dreadnought battleships
- Agamemnon
- Albion (damaged, twice direct hit by shellfire)
- Canopus
- Cornwallis
- Exmouth
- Glory
- Goliath (torpedoed and sunk on May 13 at Cape Helles, 570 men killed)
- Hibernia
- Implacable
- Irresistible (mined and sunk on March 18, 150 men killed)
- London
- Lord Nelson
- Magnificent
- Majestic (torpedoed and sunk on May 27 at Cape Helles, 49 men killed)
- Mars
- Ocean (mined and sunk on March 18, little loss of life)
- Prince George
- Prince of Wales
- Queen
- Russell
- Swiftsure
- Triumph (torpedoed and sunk on May 25 at Anzac, 78 men killed)
- Venerable
- Vengeance
- Zealandia
- Cruisers
- Amethyst (damaged on 14 March 1915, direct hit by shellfire, 26 men killed 34 others wounded)
- Bacchante
- Blenheim
- Chatham
- Cornwall
- Dartmouth (damaged on 15 March 1915, boiler explosion, 15 men killed)
- Doris
- Dublin (damaged, torpedoed by Austro-Hungarian U-4)
- Edgar
- Endymion
- Europa
- Euryalus
- Grafton (damaged on 12 August 1915, direct hit by shellfire, 9 men killed)
- Kent
- Minerva
- Phaeton
- Sapphire
- Talbot
- Theseus
- Destroyers
- Arno
- Beagle
- Bulldog
- Chelmer (During landing at ANZAC Cove took small arms fire, 1 men killed)
- Colne
- Foxhound
- Grampus (On 17 April 1915 came under small arms fire, several crew including her captain were killed)
- Grasshopper
- Hussar
- Jed
- Kennet
- Louis (ran aground during a gale and destroyed by shellfire on October 31)
- Lydiard
- Laforey[1]
- Lawford[2]
- Mosquito
- Partridge
- Pincher
- Racoon
- Rattlesnake
- Renard
- Ribble
- Savage
- Scorpion
- Scourge
- Usk
- Wear
- Wolverine (damaged on 28 April 1915, direct hit by shellfire, 3 men killed including her captain)
- Monitors
- Sloops
- Anemone
- Aster
- Heliotrope
- Honeysuckle
- Jonquil (HQ for British IX Corps at Suvla)
- Submarines
- Other
- HMT Royal Edward (Troopship) torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat, at least 864 men killed
- SS Vaderland (1900) (troopship) torpedoed and damaged by a German U-boat, 40 men killed
- Beryl (Trawler / minesweeper)
- Canning (Kite balloon ship)
- Egmont (Ironclad, formerly Achilles)
- Guildford Castle (Hospital ship)
- Hector (Kite balloon ship)
- Heroic (Armed Boarding Steamer)[3]
- Manica (Kite balloon ship)
- Triad (Yacht)
- Barryfield (paddle steamer converted to landing vessel)[4]
French warships
- Battleships
- Bouvet (mined and sunk on 18 March 1915, 660 men killed)
- Charlemagne
- Gaulois (heavily damaged on 18 March 1915)
- Henri IV
- Jauréguiberry (damaged)
- Masséna (hulk scuttled off Cape Helles in November 1915)
- Saint Louis
- Suffren (damaged on 18 March 1915, shellfire struck turret, entire crew were killed)
- Cruisers
- Jeanne d'Arc
- Latouche-Tréville (damaged, 2 men killed 5 others wounded)
- Submarines
Other warships
- Askold - Russian light cruiser
- AE2 - Australian submarine (attacked, later scuttled on April 29, 4 men killed)
References
- ^ Battles & Honours of the Royal Navy. David A Thomas 1998
- ^ Battles & Honours of the Royal Navy. David A Thomas 1998
- ^ British Warships 1914-1919.Dittmar and Colledge 1972
- ^ http://historicalrfa.org/requisitioned-auxiliaries/161-requisitioned-auxiliaries-b/1575-requisitioned-auxiliary-barry