John de Robeck was an admiral in the British Navy and commanded the naval force to win the Dardanelles during WWI. The Royal Navy of the United Kingdom is the senior service of the armed services, being the oldest of its three branches. ... The Dardanelles (Turkish: Çanakkale Boğazı), formerly Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea with the Sea of Marmara. ... WWI may be an acronym for: World War I World Wrestling Industry This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...
Dardanelles Campaign
The naval campaign to win the straits and push on to Constantinople was nearly succesful due to a lack of ammunition on the Turkish side. Mines laid in the straits caused some minor casualties but these were enough to unnerve Admiral de Robeck. Map of Constantinople. ...
The arrival of General Hamilton and his troops gave Admiral de Robeck the possibility to turn over responsibility of taking the straits to the army. Fearing for his career de Robeck took this opportunity with both hands much to the dismay of Churchill. Sir Ian Standish Monteith Hamilton (January 16, 1853 - October 12, 1947) was a general in the British Army and is most notably known for commanding the ill-fated Mediterranean Expeditionary Force during the Battle of Gallipoli. ... The Right Honourable Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill, KG, OM, CH, FRS (November 30, 1874 – January 24, 1965) was a British statesman, best known as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom during the Second World War. ...
The situation on the Turkish side was so dire that if de Robeck had pushed his ships on for another day he would have seen all opposition disappear and could have easily steamed on to Constantinople.
Admiral Sir John Michael DeRobeck (1862-1928) oversaw the disastrous initial attempt to capture the Dardanelles Straits in March 1915.
With the declaration of war deRobeck was given command of the 9th Cruiser Squadron before being appointed deputy to Admiral Sackville Carden at the East Mediterranean Squadron tasked with the Dardanelles expedition.
Illness however obliged Carden to give up his post, and deRobeck consequently led the disastrously unsuccessful attempt upon the Straits on 18 March 1915 (chiefly on account of the presence of an unsuspected Turkish minefield), the more senior Admiral Rosslyn Wemyss having stepped aside to allow deRobeck to oversee the operation.
Admiral of the Fleet Sir JohndeRobeck, 1st Baronet GCB GCMG GCVO, (10 June 1862 – 20 January 1928) was an admiral in the British Navy commanding the Allied naval force at the Dardanelles during WWI.
DeRobeck was born in Naas, County Kildare, Ireland, the second son of John Henry Edward Fock, fourth Baron deRobeck (1823-1904), to a family of Swedish origin, long settled in Ireland.
The situation on the Turkish side was so dire that if deRobeck had pushed his ships on for another day he may well have seen all opposition disappear and been able to steam on to Constantinople and knock the Ottoman Empire out of the war.
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