HMS Majestic
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HMS
Majestic was a Majestic class dreadnought battleship laid
down at Portsmouth dockyard, and was launched in January
1895 for the Royal Navy. After the outbreak of the Great
War, she acted as an escort and guard ship, before she was
assigned to the Dardanelles Campaign against the Turks in
1915. She
bombarded the Turkish positions at Gaba Tepe and had from
the start participated in the Entente operations at the
Dardanelle and Gallipoli. 27. May 1915 she was hit by two
torpedoes from the German submarine U 21 under command of
Otto Hersing and sank. Forty men lost their lives in the
sinking. The wreck was looted and heavily salvaged in the
1960's, and the remains of her rest today on a depth of 18
to 25 meter in Morto Bay.
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40°02′30″ N 26°11′02″ E  Picture: HMS Majestic Courtesy of Royal Navy, Public domain Last updated: December 2020 |
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