Naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign
The naval operations in the Dardanelles campaign (17 February 1915 – 9 January 1916) took place against the Ottoman Empire during the First World War. Ships of the Royal Navy, French , Imperial Russian Navy () and the Royal Australian Navy, attempted to force the Dardanelles Straits, a narrow, -long waterway connecting the Mediterranean Sea with the Sea of Marmara and the Black Sea further north.