Show THREE SHIPS SUNK IN dardanelles DARDA NELLES THREE OF THE ALLIES VESSELS SENT TO BOTTOM BY FLOATING MINES turks and germans had set adrift floating containers of explosives and these came in contact with the doomed ships london tho british battleships irresistible and ocean und and the french battleship bouvet bouve were blown up by floating mines while engaged with the remainder of the allied fleet in attacking the forts in the narrows of the tha dardanelles Darda nelles thursday the crews of the two british ships were virtually all saved having baving been transferred to other ships under a hot fire alre I 1 but an internal explosion took place on board the bouvet after she had fouled the mine and most of her ber crew was lost the bouvet sank within three minutes of the time that she alt the mine the waters in which the ships were lost had been swept of mines but the british admiralty asserts that the turks and the germans set floating containers contal nera ot of explosives adrift and these were carried down by the current into the allied ships gathered in sida allathe entrant os of the alap all the gaps that were sunk were old ones the bouvot having been completed nearly twenty years ago and the ocean and irresistible in 1898 they were very useful however for the work in which they were engaged lu ill the dardanelles Darda nelles the sunken british ships are being replaced by the battleships queen and implacable vessels of a similar type they are said to have started some time ago for near eastern waters in anticipation of just such losses as aa have now occurred |