Goeben Raid on Sevastopol

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Goeben Raid on Sevastopol

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Is there a consensus opinion on the amount of damage, if any, Goeben’s guns had on harbor installations and other facilities that day?
Did she specifically take the collier Ida as a prize or did one of her escorts?
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Re: Goeben Raid on Sevastopol

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Hi gflotron,

According to Mungo Melvin's "Sevastopol's Wars" Osprey 2017, Goeben caused virtually no damage at all in an attack on 29th October 1914. 47 rounds of main armament and 12 of secondary were fired, resulting in the killing and injuring of some patients outside the waterside hospital, and some shells landed near warships in the harbour. Russian shore batteries replied with 360 shells, hitting Goeben three times with minor damage, but one Russian gun exploded, killing several crew members. The Russian Fleet, despite being on a war footing, and warned by earlier attacks that morning on other ports, did not emerge.

The near-simultaneous raids on Russian ports, Odessa, Novorossiysk, Feodosiya and Yalta by Breslau, Hamidiye and other Turkish vessels sank gunboat Donets and damaged Kubanets, a similar vessel as well as minelayer Beshtau, and sank several merchant vessels and caused significant damage ashore.

Melvin makes no mention of a collier called Ida.

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