HMS Triumph
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HMS
Triumph was a dreadnought battleship launched in 1903 for
Royal navy. She participated in the hunt for the German
Kreuzergeschwader, the "cruiser fleet" loosely translated,
in Asia after the outbreak of world war one. In November
1914 she was in engaged in operations against the
German colony of Tsingtao in China. She sailed for
Mediterranean 12.January 1915 to participate in Entente
operations at the Dardanelles in Turkey. A few months
later while she bombarded Ottoman forts 25.May 1915, she
was torpedoed by the German submarine U-21 outside Gaba
Tepe. Most of the crew was evacuated, but 78 men died in
the sinking.The wreck rest today on a depth of 56 to 72
meter outside Cape Helles.
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Picture: HMS Triumph Wikipedia, Public domain  "The Swiftsure class was
a group of two British pre-dreadnought
battleships. Originally ordered by Chile during a period
of high tension with Argentina, they were intended to
defeat a pair of armored cruisers ordered by the latter
country and were optimized for this role. This meant
that they were smaller and more lightly armed than most
battleships of the time. They were purchased by the
United Kingdom in 1903 prior to their completion to
prevent their purchase by the Russian Empire as tensions
were rising between them and the Japanese Empire, a
British ally. Completed the following
year, Swiftsure and Triumph had
roughly similar careers for the first decade of their
service careers. They were initially assigned to
the Home Fleet and Channel
Fleets before being transferred to
the Mediterranean Fleet in 1909. Both ships
rejoined Home Fleet in 1912 and were transferred abroad
in 1913. Triumph went to the China Station"
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