UNEXPLODED SHELL AT ÇIMENLIK - QUEEN ELISABETH
the first authentic hotel on the Gallipoli peninsula
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The
British tried a fresh approach on 5 March. The Queen Elizabeth was sent
up the peninsula and anchored off Gaba Tepe. Her massive guns then fired over
the peninsula peaks and on to the forts along the Narrows. The Ottomans were
powerless to reply. The fort walls at Çanakkale today still bear the scars of
the bombardment. A gun was rushed to Gaba Tepe that night, forcing the British
ship further offshore, thereby greatly reducing the accuracy of this fire.
"Gallipoli, the
Turkish story", (Crows Nest 2003), Kevin Fewster, Vecihi Başarın, Hatice
Hürmüz Başarın, p. 53
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