HMS Queen Elizabeth, leaving Mudros Harbour for Gallipoli Peninsula. It will be noticed that her ...

Accession Number G00550
Collection type Photograph
Object type Black & white - Glass transparency (positive)
Maker Brooks, Ernest
Place made Greece: Aegean Islands, Lemnos, Mudros
Date made April 1915
Conflict First World War, 1914-1918
Copyright

Item copyright: Copyright expired - public domain

Public Domain Mark This item is in the Public Domain

Description

HMS Queen Elizabeth, leaving Mudros Harbour for Gallipoli Peninsula. It will be noticed that her bow is painted white to simulate the water thrown up when she is moving rapidly, and thus deceive the enemy as to her actual speed.