"At times it was perfect hell, shells screaming over head"

Naval operations in the Dardanelles 6 - 9 March 1915

I have now heard from Carden that he considers it will take him fourteen days on which firing is practicable to enter the Sea of Marmora, counting from the 2nd of March. Of course bad weather would prolong, and a collapse of the Turkish resistance at the later forts would shorten this period. But it seems to me we ought now to fix a date for the militar…