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The Obsolete Battleship That Lent Its Name to Gallipoli's Unknown Beach
The Obsolete Battleship That Lent Its Name to Gallipoli's Unknown Beach
The thought that an obsolete battleship-broken up for scrap seven years after Gallipoli-would be the name scratched into a landing record still chills: survivors called the landing site Implacable Beach after a ship declared useless before the campaign. How did a vessel with two peacetime boiler explosions and a scattered crew become the informal namesake of a stretch of Turkish coastline?
In this episode, we tell the story of HMS Implacable from her laying down to her final fate, covering her construction, armament…
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