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	French battleship Bouvet Information
		The French battleship Bouvet was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, (probably) named after French admiral François Joseph Bouvet, launched in 1896 and sunk during World War I.
		The Bouvet was part of the squadron contributed by the French to the Dardanelles Campaign.
		Subsequently two British battleships, the Ocean and Irresistible, were sunk and the battlecruiser HMS Inflexible, as well as the battleships Suffren and Gaulois, were damaged by the same minefield.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/French_battleship_Bouvet (328 words)

	Battleship Encyclopedia Article @ HeartsOfTexans.com (Hearts of Texans) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Battleship was the name given to the most powerfully gun-armed and most heavily armored classes of warships built between the 15th and 20th centuries.
		Battleships evolved from northern European cogs, and included carracks and galleons in the 16th Century, ships of the line in the 17th and 18th centuries, broadside ironclads and Pre-Dreadnoughts in the 19th century, and Dreadnoughts in the 20th Century.
		Battleships still in existence as museums include the American USS Massachusetts, North Carolina, Alabama and Texas, the British HMS Mary Rose and Warrior, the Japanese Mikasa, the Swedish Vasa, the Dutch Buffel and Schorpioen, and the Chilean Huáscar.
	www.heartsoftexans.com /encyclopedia/Battleship (8337 words)

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		Bouvet built aqt Lorient was laid down on the 16th January 1893 and launched on the 27th April 1896,.
		On the 18th march the Bouvet was hit eight times form shells form the forts all struck above the waterline.
		She was in poor condition and it is believed that a magazine explosion probably caused the rapid sinking.
	www.taubmansonline.com /MRBBOUVET.htm (153 words)

	French Navy, World War 1
		"Bouvet" was third from left of the four French battleship squadron (Rear-Adm Emile Guépratte) taking part in the Main Naval Attack on the Dardanelles defences, this time far enough in to bombard the Narrows at Chanak.
		As "Bouvet" retired led by flagship "Suffren" turning south towards the Asia shore, she exploded, apparently hit in a magazine by a heavy shell at 13.54hrs and capsized and sank in two minutes taking most of her c 700 crew crew with her.
		From March to May 1915, she was part of the French squadron including pre-dreadnoughts "Bouvet", "Charlemagne", "Gaulois" and "Suffren" that joined the Royal Navy in the naval attack on the Dardanelles.
	www.naval-history.net /WW1NavyFrench.htm (3461 words)

	French battleship Bouvet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The French battleship Bouvet was a pre-Dreadnought battleship of the French Navy, launched in 1896 and sunk by mine in 1915 during World War I.
		It was named for the maritime family of Bouvet de Lozier, the most famous being French admiral François Joseph Bouvet.
		The ship heeled very rapidly, since the hull was designed (like many French battleships designed by Huin) with a "tumblehome" form, meaning the sides sloped inwards; this meant that the hull was losing stability for every degree that it heeled over, which sped up the process of capsizing.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/French_battleship_Bouvet (532 words)

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		was a French predreadnought battleship built during 1896.
		During WWI she tried to force the Dardanelles Strait in company with a British squadron of battleships.
		The battleship was devastated by the explosion, and rapidly sank in the strait.
	www.steelnavy.com /BouvetEDrots.htm (204 words)

	Feb. 19, 1915: Dardanelles Bombardment - Campaign begins - Military Photos
		Meanwhile the French government, in the form of incoming naval minister Jean Augagneur, was reluctant to cede the possibility of a purely British naval success in the Mediterranean.
		After two hours stalking the battleship HMS Triumph near Gaba Nepe, which was engaged in bombarding Turkish shore positions, a single torpedo passed through the ship's anti-submarine nets and ripped a hole in her side.
		Her next major success was the February 8 sinking of the French cruiser Amiral Charner, with the loss of 334 of 335 crew, and in April the destruction of the British merchantman City of Lucknow, about sixty miles east of Malta.
	www.militaryphotos.net /forums/showthread.php?t=6819 (5298 words)

	Mine Warfare: First World War
		However, as the Allied ships rotated through their firing positions in the narrow strait, the French battleship Bouvet hit a mine (some reports stated that she was hit by shellfire) and sank with most of her crew in an area that the British believed had been swept earlier.
		The British replaced the remaining civilian crews with survivors from the sunken battleships and fitted eight destroyers with minesweeping gear to augment the trawlers.
		In May 1915, one casualty was the French submarine Joule, which hit a mine and was lost, along with her crew.
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	Battle of Gallipoli xmpg.org (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Three battleships were sunk (the British HMS Ocean (1898) and HMS Irresistible (1898) and the French French battleship Bouvet) while battlecruiser HMS HMS Inflexible (1908) and the French battleships French battleship Suffren and French battleship Gaulois were badly damaged.
		Hamilton's invasion force was opposed by the Turkish Fifth Army, under the command of the German advisor to the Ottoman Army, General Otto Liman von Sanders.
		In the Third Battle of Krithia on June 4 all thought of a decisive breakthrough was gone and the plans for battle had reverted to trench warfare with objectives being measured in hundreds of metres.
	battle.of.gallipoli.en.xmpg.org (4741 words)

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		The Imperial Japanese Navy\'s Satsuma was the first battleship in the world to be designed and laid down as an all-big-gun battleship, although gun shortages only allowed her to be equipped with four of the twelve 12-in (300 mm) guns that had been planned.
		Most new-build World War II battleships had similar layouts, typically equipped with three triple turrets of 14 inch (356 mm) to 16 inch (406 mm) calibre (18.1 inch (460 mm) in the mighty Yamatos) in a "2-A-1" layout, and the superstructure flanked with secondary guns of 4-6 inch (100 mm to 152 mm) caliber.
		And in the Battle of Leyte Gulf on 25 October 1944 six battleships, led by admiral Jesse Oldendorf of the US 7th Fleet sank the Japanese admiral Shoji Nishimura\'s battleships Yamashiro and Fuso during the Battle of Surigao Strait.
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	Famous Turkish ship restored
		On March 18, a fleet of 18 British and French battleships, accompanied by dozens of smaller vessels, entered the strait.
		At the height of the battle, two British battleships, the Ocean and the Irresistible, blundered into the minefield laid by the Nusret and were severely damaged, both being abandoned by their crews and later sinking.
		With the loss of the French battleship Bouvet with nearly all her crew of 650, de Robeck conceded defeat, ordering the fleet to return to its base at Mudros.
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	The British & French Fleet at Gallipoli
		The combined British and French fleet consisted of the new battleship Queen Elizabeth, 3 battle-cruisers, 16 pre-dreadnought (including four French vessels), 4 cruisers, 18 destroyers, 6 submarines, 21 trawlers plus the seaplane carrier Ark Royal.
		The British and French had not come close to destroying the batteries and forts: the batteries were too well hidden and the battleships were not yet close enough to the forts.
		The probability is that the Bouvet sank in less than the three minutes mentioned by de Robeck.
	www.diggerhistory2.info /graveyards/pages/units/fleet.htm (2326 words)

	Dardanelles & Gallipoli campaigns in WW1
		Under Adm Carden's command, battlecruisers "Indefatigable" and "Indomitable" and French pre-dreadnoughts "Suffren" and "Verité" shell the forts of Sedd-el-Bahr and Kum Kale at the northern and southern tips, respectively of the entrance to the Straits.
		Bombardments on the 2nd and 3rd are indecisive with the battleships being hindered by mobile gun batteries.
		On V Beach, still on the 25th, as the battleship "Albion" bombards, the ex-collier "River Clyde" attempts to land 2,000 men of the 29th Division across three lighters and a grounded dredging hopper.
	www.naval-history.net /WW1CampaignsDardanelles.htm (4437 words)

	Turkey in the First World War - Gallipoli (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At 6:00 am, four battleships were sighted to the west of the straits, moving at a speed of 15 miles per hour.
		Meanwhile the French battleships were getting closer and entering the effective range of Turkish guns and the tide began to change.
		At 1:20 pm, the Bouvet, which was trying to get closer to Dardanos, was damaged heavily by the shells of the Hamidiye battery.
	www.turkeyswar.com /campaigns/gallipoli.htm (3458 words)

	The Naval Attack
		De Robeck signalled the French to retire for his third wave of advance, Ocean, Irresistible, Albion, Vengeance, Swiftsun and Majestic.
		As the French ships led by Suffren had their return, wheeled away to make room for the second squadron, something unexpected had happened, around 14:00.
		French ship Bouvet following immediately Suffren hit a mine and within two minutes had disappeared entirely, with the loss of almost all her crew.
	www.canakkale.gen.tr /eng/navalmid.html (896 words)

	Dardanels
		At the disposal of the British commander, Admiral Carden, were a number of obsolete battleships which were unsuitable for facing the Germans in the North Sea but, with their 12 inch guns, were more than adequate for shore bombardment.
		The battle was joined early in March; the allied battleships pounded the forts, mine sweepers cleaned the narrows as best they could, the forts returned accurate fire (most guns were manned by German crews) while mobile artillery along the shores peppered the allies with harassing fire.
		The achievements and suffering of the ANZAC, British and French infantry at Gallipoli would be recorded in history during the next phase of the campaign.
	www.fortunecity.com /meltingpot/oxford/285/dardanelles.htm (770 words)

	Major Warships Sunk in World War 1 1915
		French armoured cruiser Leon Gambetta was sunk by two torpedoes from the Austro-Hungarian submarine U5.
		Like many pre-dreadnought battleships she was not suitable to operate with the battle fleet and so were used for shore bombardment.
		Bouvet was mined and sunk along with the British pre-dreadnoughts Irresistible and Ocean on the same day in a small 20 mine field laid by the Ottoman minelayer Noursret during the Dardanelle's Campaign.
	www.worldwar1.co.uk /sunk15.htm (1281 words)

	Re: New Zealand Military Incompetence
		The admirals refused to allow their best ships to be used and, apart from the newly built battleship Queen Elizabeth and the battlecruisers Inflexible and Irresistible, most of the ships were old, due for retirement and manned by mostly reserve crews.
		From here the positions on both >sides of the strait dominating the sea approaches could be >neutralised, allowing the naval operation to proceed." >Perhaps you would prefer another source >(http://www.fact-index.com/b/ba/battle_of_gallipoli.html) "A new >attack was launched on March 18, targeted at the narrowest point of >the Dardanelles where the straits were just a mile wide.
		Three >battleships were sunk; the British HMS Ocean and HMS Irresistible, and >the French Bouvet, while the battlecruiser HMS Inflexible and the >French battleships Suffren and Gaulois were badly damaged After the >failure of the naval attacks, it had become clear that ground troops >were necessary to eliminate the Turkish mobile artillery.
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	Governorship Of Çanakkale
		After the loss of the Bouvet and two British battleships, the commander of the Allied fleet, the British Admiral John de Robeck, ordered his remaining vessels to withdraw.
		The French battleship the Bouvet struck a mine in the bay and sank with more than 600 of crew on board.
		Two British battleships, the Ocean and the Irresistible, were also sunk by mines and shell fire.
	www.canakkale.gov.tr /eng_monuments.htm (2782 words)

	India Overland
		The admirals refused to allow their best ships to be used and, apart from the newly built battleship Queen Elizabeth and the battlecruisers Inflexible and Irresistible, most of the ships were old, due for retirement and manned by mostly reserve crews.
		This was not how it should have been and the Royal Navy, used to the immediate surrender of natives overawed by the spectacle of naval power, seemed at a loss as to what to do.
		Later in the afternoon, minesweepers were sent forward with a view to freeing the waters ahead for the battleships to follow.
	www.indiaoverland.biz /overland/info/gallipolli.html (2456 words)

	E. Fryer
		He was serving on HMS Vengeance, which was an obsolete coal fired Battleship of the Canopus class.
		She was therefore incorporated in the Fleet sent to the Mediterranean in 1915 to force passage through the Dardenelles.
		The Anglo- French fleet that assembled to force the Dardenelles on February 19th 1915 was large.
	us.geocities.com /abbertonroh/FRYER.htm (1054 words)

	E.J. Emmett. The American Negro in the World War. Appendix E
		March 18---British battleships Irresistible and Ocean and French battleship Bouvet sunk in Dardanelles strait.
		British battleship Britannia torpedoed and sunk by German submarines off entrance to Straits of Gibraltar.
		French armies advance across the west boundary of Alsace-Lorraine and occupy many towns.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/comment/Scott/SChA5.htm (2793 words)

	French naval history and photographs - Battleship Bouvet
		Bouvet built aqt Lorient was laid down on the 16th January 1893 and launched on the 27th April 1896,.
		On the 18th march the Bouvet was hit eight times form shells form the forts all struck above the waterline.
		She then struck a 176 lb mine which exploded below the starboard 10.8 inch turret and this caused the Bouvet to Capsize and sink in under 2 minutes with the loss of around 660 crew.
	www.battleships-cruisers.co.uk /bouvet.htm (649 words)

	Gallery Battleships (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Designed by Ivan G. Bubnov, the battleship was to be armed with twelve 16-inch/45 (406mm) and twenty four 130mm guns with a speed of 25 knots and a displacement of 35,600 tons.
		The "R" class battleships, unfortunately, were not considered good candidates for drastic modernization between the wars but in 1916, they were considered the most potent warships in the Grand Fleet.
		The battleship became notorious due to the mutiny in the port of Odessa during the failed revolution of 1905, as narrated in Sergei Eisenstein’s world famous movie.
	steelnavy.com /gallery_battleships.htm (10002 words)

	WW1 Gallipoli
		At Helles, the main fleet bombarded the tip of the peninsula, and landings began at beaches V, W, X, Y, S. The British 29th Division landed at W and V, came under heavy machine-gun fire and many died in the boats and at waters edge.
		May 12 - one of the rare examples of army-navy cooperation took place at Y beach when Navy gave close support to a Gurkha attack on the bluff, very successful with few casualties, and was renamed Gurkha Bluff.
		May 27 - The Gallipoli disaster caused Herbert Asquith to remove Churchill from the Admiralty, replaced him with Arthur Balfour, and Lord Fisher was replaced by Henry Jackson, and to form a new coaltion government May 25 with the Conservatives led by Andrew Bonar Law and Liberals led by David Lloyd George.
	history.sandiego.edu /gen/ww1/gallipoli.html (3127 words)

	Henry W. Ruoff, ed. Book of the War. 1918. War Events: 1915.
		French capture heights west of Sennheim and village of Steinbach, Alsace.
		The French took the crest of the hill at Les Eparges, depriving the Germans of a position of great strategic importance which dominated the valley of the Woevre.
		French continue advances on the slopes of the Tahure hill, in the vicinity of that village, and north of Massiges, in Champagne.
	www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/comment/Warbook/wb1915.htm (1581 words)

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