bierlijn Posted 2 July , 2007 Share Posted 2 July , 2007 Hi - I have some blurry snaps taken by my Grandfather on the way to Gallipoli and in Mudros and Trebuki Bays. Get these two, and I can post 8 or so more. Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiegeGunner Posted 2 July , 2007 Share Posted 2 July , 2007 The top one looks like HMS Triumph. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Lowrey Posted 2 July , 2007 Share Posted 2 July , 2007 The bottom one is HMS Queen Elizabeth. Best wishes, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michael Lowrey Posted 2 July , 2007 Share Posted 2 July , 2007 Have to disagree with Mick about the top photo. The funnel ararngement is wrong for it to be Triumph. Jane's notes that the Formidable, London, and Queen classes have "fore funnel close to foremast and smaller than after" which is what we see here. The 12pdr gun battery amidship on the upper deck is enclosed, so HMS Queen and her sistership Prince of Wales can be excluded. The distinction between the Formidable and London classes involves whether there's a row of scuttles low near the bow and the specifics of the turrets, neither of which are very clear in the photo. Best wishes, Michael Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionia Posted 3 July , 2007 Share Posted 3 July , 2007 I think that this is a "Canopus" Class ship; probably CANOPUS, GOLIATH or OCEAN. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
horatio2 Posted 3 July , 2007 Share Posted 3 July , 2007 All the 'contestants' are very similar. I would go for CANOPUS, if only for the reason that she was anchored in Trebuki Bay, Skyros, with the RND transports in April 1915 just before the landings. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bierlijn Posted 3 July , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 July , 2007 It won't help much but there is a second picture of the Canopus class ship, alongside HMS Weymouth and a transport. In both pictures the funnels of the Canopus class appear to be campflage painted. Is it a coincidence that HMS Weymouth was also painted so? As this all went so well, two more ships coming up in a separate topic. .. Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ionia Posted 3 July , 2007 Share Posted 3 July , 2007 It won't help much but there is a second picture of the Canopus class ship, alongside HMS Weymouth and a transport. In both pictures the funnels of the Canopus class appear to be campflage painted. Is it a coincidence that HMS Weymouth was also painted so? As this all went so well, two more ships coming up in a separate topic. .. Hugh Are you sure that this is the WEYMOUTH? Her sister DARTMOUTH was with CANOPUS at Trbuki but I think WEYMOUTH was off East Africa at the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bierlijn Posted 3 July , 2007 Author Share Posted 3 July , 2007 Whoops! I'll stick to asking the questions in future! If you happen to own the book "Images of Gallipoli" , PA Pedersen, OUP Melbourne 1988, there is a picture of this ship on P.43 - "The light cruiser HMS Weymouth. This photograph is among the first of a British Warship in naval camoflage." Hugh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James A Pratt III Posted 5 July , 2007 Share Posted 5 July , 2007 According to my notes from "British Battleships 1889-1904" R.A. Burt the Canopus, Irresistable, Vengence, Implacable, and Agamennon were painted in multi-color camo schemes, as was the Inflexible based on some other notes I have from a book on the "Invinible class Battlecrruisers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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