The French battleship Bouvet, in the Dardanelles.
It was assigned to escort troop convoys through the Mediterranean at the
start of the war. In early 1915, part of a larger group of combined
British and French ships sent to clear Turkish defenses of the
Dardanelles, Bouvet was hit by at least eight Turkish shells, then
struck a mine, which caused so much damage, the ship sank within a few
minutes. While a few men survived the sinking and were rescued, nearly
650 went down with the ship.Photograph: Bibliotheque nationale de France
Bouvet Memorial Window.
