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It was claimed later by the British that she had sunk, a claim which was officially denied by the Turks. Her loss to Turkey, if it did occur, was not serious, for she was too old to move about, and her only service was to guard the mine fields. The B-ll after being pursued by destroyers again submerged for nine hours and came successfully from the scene of the exploit.
He entered the waters of the Dardanelles on the 13th of December, 1914, and submerging, traveled safely through five lines of Turkish mines and sent a torpedo against the hull of the Turkish battleship Messudiyeh. The B-ll slowly came to the surface to see what had been the result of her exploit, and her commander, through the periscope saw her going down by the stern.
While the daring exploits of German submarines were winning the admiration of the entire world for their operations in the northern naval theatre of war, the British submarine commander, Holbrook, with the B-ll upheld the prestige of this sort of craft in the British navy.
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