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Unit / Ship / Establishment:
HMS Lord Nelson
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| Mike: In February 1915, Lord Nelson was ordered to the Dardanelles to participate in the Dardanelles Campaign. She departed Portland on 18 February 1915, and joined the British Dardanelles Squadron at Mudros on 26 February 1915. She took part in the bombardment of the inner forts and supported the initial landings in early March 1915. The Ottoman Turkish forts engaged her heavily on 7 March 1915 and hit her several times; she suffered damage to her superstructure and rigging and was holed by one hit below the waterline which flooded two coal bunkers. After repairs at Malta, she returned to take part in the main attack on the Narrows forts on 18 March 1915. Later she fired on the German battlecruiser Goeben briefly off Gaba Tepe, and bombarded Ottoman field batteries on 6 May 1915 prior to the Second Battle of Krithia. Lord Nelson anchored at the Dardanelles in 1915. Her sister ship Agamemnon is anchored behind her.Lord Nelson relieved battleship Queen Elizabeth as Flagship, Vice Admiral, British Dardanelles Squadron, on 12 May 1915, flying the flag of Vice-Admiral Rosslyn Erskine-Wemyss. On 20 June 1915, she bombarded docks and shipping at Gallipoli, aided by the spotting of a kite balloon, and inflicted significant damage. Lord Kitchener made his headquarters aboard her in November 1915, and on 22 December 1915[12] she hoisted the flag of Vice Admiral John de Roebeck when he succeeded Wemyss.[13] With the end of the Dardanelles Campaign in January 1916, during which Lord Nelson had suffered no casualties, British naval forces in the area were reorganized, and Lord Nelson became Flagship, Vice Admiral, Eastern Mediterranean Squadron, which was redesignated the Aegean Squadron in August 1917; under either name, the squadron was dispersed throughout the area to protect Allied-held islands, support the British Army at Salonika, and guard against any attempted breakout from the Dardanelles by the German battlecruiser Goeben and light cruiser Breslau. Lord Nelson spent the remainder of the war based at Salonika and Mudros, alternating between the two bases with her sister ship HMS Agamemnon; Lord Nelson was based mostly at Salonika, Agamemnon at Mudros.[13] NOT TRUE |
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