HMS Iron Duke leaving Istanbul, Turkey - August 1923
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HMS Iron Duke leaving Istanbul, Turkey - August 1923
Photograph from the deck of the HMS Marlborough of one of the other Iron-Duke Class Battleships of the British Mediterranean Fleet (the HMS Iron Duke) - which formed the 4th Battle Squadron (with the HMS Benbow and the HMS Emperor of India) - leaving Istanbul for the final time. In August 1923, the Allied Powers turned over Istanbul to the Nationalists, marking the final departure of occupation armies from Anatolia. This card marks the occasion of the Allied Generals handing over the custody of the city at the Dolmabahce Palace. HMS Marlborough was an Iron Duke-class battleship of the British Royal Navy, named in honour of John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough. Built at Devonport Royal Dockyard between January 1912 and June 1914 and entered service just prior to First World War. Assigned to the Mediterranean Fleet after the war, Marlborough took part in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War (in the Black Sea 191920). She was also involved in the Greco-Turkish War. Date: 1923
Media ID 14345534
© Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection
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