Very sad news. Again a big gap in our community. R.I.P. Domenico!

Jochen

Hello David,

Good to hear from you after such a long time.

Many thanks for your statements to which I fully agree. I will check the FCO files during my visit to TNA possibly in 2023, but I think it is quite obvious that FIREFLY was completely destroyed in the 1920 action.

Best regards,
Jochen

Hello David, Many thanks for the informations. Yes, I found her in the mentioned book which I have in my archive. She was handed over to IWT on 02.03.1918 for service as "defence vessel". Unfortunately no more infos, because the original book was published already in 1921 and possibly to e...

Hello all, During my research on the final fate of HMS Firefly I came across possibly contradictory information. In the book by Ian Rutledge "Enemy on the Euphrates 1914-1921" the author gives the following information in summary: ".07.1920: arrived at Kufa / river Euphrates and moore...

Mirr.png EXPEDITION „MIRR“ Eine Darstellung der Tätigkeit deutscher U-Boote im Rahmen der osmanischen Kriegsführung in Tripolitanien und der Cyrenaika im Ersten Weltkrieg (1915 - 1918) An account of the activity of German submarines in the context of Ottoman warfare in Tripolitania and the Cyrenaik...

No,sorry.

BAĞDAT Passenger/Steel/Paddlesteamer (GQBO/HBGV/TCFG) Bld.: Howaldtswerke AG, Kiel -410- L: 1904 T: .08.1904 Eng.: T3cyl 900ihp Howaldtswerke AG 434gt 149nt L=54,8m B=7,3m D=2,8m 1904: ordered by Anadolu Demiryolu Osmanlı Şirketi, İstanbul on behalf of Bağdat Demiryolu Osmanlı Şirketi, İstanbul .08....

No, Selamet was not Gazze. I am still working on Gazze history.

I personaly don`t think that SELAMET was in existence anymore when WW I commenced. Possibly broken up between 1911-1914.

Thank you very much for your answer and the "kind" words. Please be assured that I can read between the lines and have already understood your comments. To conclude, here are my informations about the two vessels: AZİMET: 14.07.1870: arrived at İstanbul from London 24.07.1870: No. 23 – AZİ...

I can`t conclude if this site is reliable, but in the mentioned case it isn`t by far. The vessel which sank was a small sailing vessel of abt. 50 tons with the same name. I have the full report of the German Korvettenkapitän Freese of the bombardement in my archive. Again a fine example for those wh...

Your question is very simply to answer, because neither of the two mentioned ferries were sank by the Russians.

Regards,
Istanbul

The word "Iskondar" doesn`t exists in Turkish language and it is an example how wrong most of the Western sources sometimes writes Turkish words. The only correct writing is "ÜSKÜDAR" which is a districht of Istanbul. On 04.05.1915 no steamship was sunk by the Russians and only t...

Hello Maurice, Thanks for posting these old "Nautibel" lists, but unfortunately they are very incorrect and outdated. The same is for the lists published in "Belgian Shiplover". When they were published a long time ago they were useful for researchers, because nearly no one cared...

Thank you-Joe R- for the informations about the casualties. I checked my archive, but unfortunately can`t state if they occurred on ÜSKÜDAR or either RESİT PAŞA. I would suggest at the first one, but can`t proof it so far. On 05.05.1915 Russian forces sank the steamships YEŞILIRMARK, GAZZE and GÜZEL...