THE DARDANELLES

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 44, 22 June 1915, Page 5

THE DARDANELLES

REPORTED NAVAL MISHAP. BATTLESHIP SEMI-SUBMERGED. Times and Sydney Sun Service. London, June 20., Constantinople declares that a battleship of the Agamemnon type is semi-submerged in Khelia Bay. (The Agamemnon is a battleship of 16,500 tons, and carries four 12in. and ten 9.2 in. guns. Battleships of this class were built in 1908),

There are only two ships of the Agamemnon class, the Agamemnon and the Lord Nelson. They have a displacement of 16,500 tons, and a speed of 18£ knots, with four 12in. guns, ten 9.2 in, guns, and live torpedo tubes. They are sometimes called semi-Dreadnoughts because they approximate the Dreadnought type in tonnage and armament. The armament is heavy, hut the double 9.2 m. turrets are small and the guns cannot ho worker} as rapidly as possible. On the whole, however, thes-) ships are extremely powerful units. The armour protection, consists of a 12-in belt amidships, and there is similar plating on the 12in. turrets, the smaller turrets having Bin. armour. They carry 750 officers and men and cost £1,650,000 to build and complete. These ships were completed in 1908-1909. (Khelia Bay is at the head of the Narrows, opposite Nagara Point, on which is the last of the great forts, Nagara. It is about two miles north of Maidos, about one mile from Fort Boghali, and about five miles from Gabe Tepe where the Colonial troops landed.) AN EX-WELLINCTON NAVAL. United Pbem Association. / (Received 9 a.m.) Sydney, Juno 22. Lance-Corporal K. Shepherd, who was wounded at the Dardanelles, was formerly a member of the Naval Brigade at Wellington, New Zealand.