‘HMS Goliath on the line’, 1914 (c)
photograph, photograph
Accession Number

NAM.1960-02-57-3-5

Description

‘HMS Goliath on the line’, 1914 (c). Photograph from an album of 18 photographs, 1914-1915. Associated with the 19th Punjabis. Associated with World War One, War at Sea (1914-1918), East Africa and Gallipoli. The Goliath was a Canopus-class battleship built at Chatham Dockyard and commissioned in 1900. Mothballed after service in the Far East she was recalled at the beginning of World War One. She participated in the blockading of the German cruiser Königsberg during the East Africa campaign and supported the landings at Gallipoli in 1915. On the 13 May 1915 the Goliath was sunk in Morto Bay, off Cape Helles, by a Turkish torpedo boat with the loss of 570 men.

Campaigns

World War One, War at Sea (1914-1918), World War One, East Africa (1914-1918), World War One, Gallipoli (1915-1916)

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