New-York tribune., 1915-03-13
IA SHELLS STRIKE
BRITISH WARSHIP
Triumph in Action II
Times in Dardanelles
Fires 1000 Rounds.

London. March 13. The Daily Mall
correspondent. i'm dispatch from the
Kgean Sea, gives the following account
of the part played by the British bat
tleship Triumph in the bombardment
of the Dardanelles lie says:
with a she'll hole through her fun
rel and the muzzles of her fourteen
7.5-inch guns that projected along her
broadsidc stained and blachened from
much firing. the Triumph came steam
ng out OF the distance. and. making a
signal to the big collier that followed
her, set herself to coal. II was u
lrcathcr for the ship that has bad
more sighting than any other in the
British fleet, that has fired more heavy
shells than any ship IN the whole his
tory Of the navy, If YOU can call it
breather to take IN l0S tons Of coal
in the first forty minutes.
"The Triumph has been seventeen
times i'm action in this war She has
been hit fourteen times and has fired
two thousand rounds What she now
knows about bombardinE forts and
being -hellcd by them in return would
I'll y threc-volumc novel. She came
from Tsing-tau to the Levant, and
there has had hand i'm everything
that has been going on.
at VAS on February II that the
Triumph assisted at the opening Of
the operations against the Darda-
nelles. The destroyers made dashes 10
within thousand yards Of the bat
teries at the entrance 10 the straits,
but the Turks did not fire on them.
Then the Albion bombarded Fort !, on
the Gallipoli peninsula. and destroyed
a battery between Cape Iellas and
Point Tcxci. The Triumph opened a
slow, deliberate ire with her l0-inch
guns at 100 yards. The Queen Eliza
beth was lying further out. sending
15-inch shells. The enemy did not
reply, and the Ark Royal. the water
plane mother ship, reported that Bat
terry 80 was undiscoverablc Trenches
and barbcd wire to oppose landing
were seSn, however, also troops at the
top Of the cliffs.
Bad weather. which lasted from
Friday, February 10, until Thursday,
February -. Obliged the feet to con
fine It's activities to patroiliuG. Then
came The Triumph's big day. She
found Battery 30 al last. and pounded
IL TO pieces. The cunnery lieutenant.
whom the Triumph crew privately
claim TO be one Of the post accom-
plished masters of his craft in the
navy, said he had never remarked so
yividly before the terrific force Of
modern heavy projectiles. There were
three runs into the strait made on
this day The Vengeance and the
Colnwallis went first, the French war
ships Gaulois and Bouvet second. and
then came the turn Of the Albion and
the Triumph. They steamed to within
900 yards, and stuck there under
tornado Of shells for three-quarters Of
an hour. picking out one gun after an
other Of Battery 90. Gun after gun
turned somersault under a direct hit.
and bricks, earth and heaps OF old
stone cannon balls, which had been
lying in the forts for hundreds Of
years, went rocking into the air.
"That night the Turks set fire to the
ruins oF the forts and barracks. Bad
weather started again and brought op-
erations 10 q staudStill. On Friday.
the 26th, the only Turkish defences
left al the entrances were q lew how
tiers and field guns. Then the French
and English NINE SNecpers paSseu INTO
the strait. The Triumph also de-
stroyed an observation post for mines.
March found all the detences OF the
Dardanelles. up TO but not including
the narrows. reduced, with the Albion
and the Triumph ordered TO make
run against Fort Dardanus. The ships
we're soon under heavy FIRE, and were
deluged with spray from shots falling
all around. Two Turkish shells fell
on the Triumph's quarterback and one
bruised the armOr belt.
"Of the two that pierced her, one
burst in the captains cabin and de-
stroyed the furniture and one fell near
n gun room. In the evening party
was landed and blew up and dis
mounted guns that were left in the
batteries. packed with guncotton or
some other explosive. They were
hurled so far across the sea that the
Triumph had TO move ofEs Flaming
chunks Of gun going up like Trevor k,
is how a gunnery lieutenant describes
II. Since then the Triumph has seen
more brisk moments. which make a
stirring yarn, but must be held back
for good reasons. Amid II all. the
officers have found time to have con
cert. At which the farce, The Shades
of Nelson in two acts. was performed
with immense success"