Helles Sector, 10am, May 18th 1915 Art.IWMART4332

Helles Sector, 10am, May 18th 1915
image: an annotated sketch of Royal Navy warships off Cape Helles. In the right foreground, battleship HMS Implacable sails towards land, with a French destroyer and HMS Majestic to the left. SS River Clyde, deliberately run aground on V Beach during the initial landings, is visible in the centre, with the Sedd-el-Bahr fort overlooking the beach. Clouds of smoke show where shells have fallen.