The E-14 had navigated twenty miles through minefields and enemy positions at the Dardanelles. Lt. Cmdr. Geoffrey White found that his target, the Goeben, was not where he expected it to be and instead attacked a Turkish merchant ship. One of his torpedoes exploded prematurely, forcing the E-14 to surface when it came under a tremendous fire from shore fortifications.
Knowing that he couldn't make it to open sea and escape, White headed to a nearby beach to save his crew, but the ship was so riddled it sank. Only seven crew members escaped the doomed ship.
The wreck of the E-14 was discovered by marine expert Selcuc Kolay and film-making diver Savas Karakas who had spent three years trying to find the ship.
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Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Monday, September 8, 2014
SS Germanic
Back on June 18, 2012, I wrote about the remains of the British submarine E-14 being found off the Turkish coast back then. It had two commanders who received the distinguished Victoria Cross during its operations in World War I.
This is a follow up[ on it.
The first captain won his VC when he slipped his ship through heavily guarded straits during the Gallipoli Campaign and over three weeks sank 2 Turkish (Ottoman) warships and a White Star cruise liner carrying 6,000 Turkish troops.
That White Star liner (same company as the Titanic) had been the SS Germanic and built by Harland & Wolff (same ones who built the Titanic) in 1875. In 1893, it was sold to an American company and in 1910, bought by Turkey and given the name Gul Djemal.
During World War I it became an Ottoman troopship before being sunk by the E-14. It was raised and continued carrying Turkish troops to the end of the war.
After the war, it was in the Ottoman-American Line and carried immigrants to America for a new life. It stopped that in 1931 and became the Gulcemal, survived World War II and eventually became a floating hotel before being scrapped in 1950.
During its career, the ship survived three major mishaps, two world wars and is the second-longest serving ocean liner in history.
--Cooter
This is a follow up[ on it.
The first captain won his VC when he slipped his ship through heavily guarded straits during the Gallipoli Campaign and over three weeks sank 2 Turkish (Ottoman) warships and a White Star cruise liner carrying 6,000 Turkish troops.
That White Star liner (same company as the Titanic) had been the SS Germanic and built by Harland & Wolff (same ones who built the Titanic) in 1875. In 1893, it was sold to an American company and in 1910, bought by Turkey and given the name Gul Djemal.
During World War I it became an Ottoman troopship before being sunk by the E-14. It was raised and continued carrying Turkish troops to the end of the war.
After the war, it was in the Ottoman-American Line and carried immigrants to America for a new life. It stopped that in 1931 and became the Gulcemal, survived World War II and eventually became a floating hotel before being scrapped in 1950.
During its career, the ship survived three major mishaps, two world wars and is the second-longest serving ocean liner in history.
--Cooter
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