View of HMS Ben-my-Chree which was a seaplane carrier working in the locality of the Dardanelles ...

Accession Number A01598
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass original half plate negative
Maker Unknown
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

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Description

View of HMS Ben-my-Chree which was a seaplane carrier working in the locality of the Dardanelles until the evacuation of Gallipoli, then moving onto the Egyptian coast. It was here off Castellorizo that she was bombarded and sunk by the Turks on 11 January 1917.

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