Coastal artillery of the Dardanelles Strait explained

Coastal artillery of the Dardanelles Strait (Turkish: Çanakkale Tabyaları) are a series of redoubts on each side of the Dardanelles Strait which controlled the strait in the First World War during the Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign. Some castles located in the background also supported the coastal artillery.

SideName (Turkish)[1] In British sources[2] Commissioner and dateAltitude, meter
Anatolian side
OrhaniyeOrkhaniye No 4Abdülhamit II (1889)10
Karanlık Liman (Kumkale)No 6 Abdülaziz25
TopçamlarAbdülaziz75
ÇakaltepeAbdülaziz115
DardanosNo 8Abdülhamit II (1892)50
Anadolu HamidiyeHamidieh No 19Abdülhamit II (1892)4
ÇimenlikChemenlek No 20Abdülaziz30
Anadolu Mecidiye Anadolu Medjidieh No 24Abdülmecit4
Rumeliaan (Thracean) side
ErtuğrulNo 1Abdülhamit II (1895)60
Seddülbahir (castle)Sedd el Bahr No 3Turhan Hatice Sultan (1659)30
DomuztepeAbdülhamit II (1892)30
KayalıktepeAbdülhamit II220
Rumeli MecidiyeNo 13Abdülhamit II (1892)20
YıldızNo 9Abdülhamit II (1892)225
Rumeli HamidiyeHamidieh II No 16Abdülhamit II (1896)10
NamazgahNo 17Abdülaziz10
DeğirmenburnuAbdülhamit II (1895)5

Bouvet

The corporal Seyit Çabuk of the Rumeli Mecidiye artillery was responsible in sinking the French battleship Bouvet on 18 April 1915. [3]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Çanakkale quide . 2018-05-05 . tr . 2018-05-05 . https://web.archive.org/web/20180505204651/http://www.canakkalesehitliklerirehberi.com/tr/canakkale-de-tabyalar . dead .
  2. Web site: Naval operations in the Dardanelles (Piotr Nykiel) . 2018-05-05 . 2016-04-24 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160424202002/http://navyingallipoli.com/teksty/forts.pdf . dead .
  3. Turgut Özakman:Diriliş,, p170-171