At 11.30 o'clock in the morning of February 25, 1915, the _Agamemnon_ was hit with a shell which had traveled six miles, but it did not damage her beyond repair. Meanwhile the _Queen Elizabeth_ had silenced Cape Hellas, firing from a distance far beyond the range of the forts' guns. And then, just before noon, and after the larger ship had silenced the main battery at Cape Hellas, the ships _Vengeance_ and _Cornwallis_ dashed in at shorter range and destroyed the minor batteries there. The _Suffren_ and _Charlemagne_ also took part in this phase of the engagement, and later, in the afternoon, the _Triumph_ and _Albion_ concentrated fire on Sedd-el-Bahr, silencing its last guns by five o'clock in the evening. The larger ships needed the respite during the night of February 25, 1915, while trawlers, which had been brought down from the North Sea for the purpose, began to sweep the entrance to the forts for mines, and cleared enough of them out by the morning of the 26th to enable the _Majestic_--which had by then joined the fleet--and the _Albion_ and _Vengeance_ to steam in between the flanking shores and fire at the forts on the Asiatic side. It was known by the allied commanders that they might expect return fire from Fort Dardanos, but this they did not fear, for they knew that its heaviest gun measured but 5.9 inches. But they had a surprise when concealed batteries near by, the presence of which had not been suspected, suddenly began to fire. Believing now that the Turks were abandoning the forts at the entrance, the allied ships covered the landing of parties of marines. Long-range firing had by the end of February 26, 1915, enabled the allied fleets to silence the outer forts and to clear their way to the straits. They now had to take up the task of destroying the real defenses of the Dardanelles--the forts at the Narrows, and this was a harder task, for long-range firing was no longer possible. The guns of the forts and those of the ships would be meeting on a more equal basis. But this was not to be essayed at once, for more rough weather kept the fleets from using their guns effectively, their trawlers continued to sweep the waters for mines near the Narrows. By March 3, 1915, however, the commanders were ready to resume operations. The _Lord Nelson_ and the _Ocean_ had by then also arrived on the scene, and in the subsequent operations were hit a number of times by the Turkish guns; and the _Canopus, Swiftsure, Prince George_, and _Sapphire_, though they did not report being hit, were also known to have been present. The new "eyes" of the fleets located new and concealed batteries placed in position by the Turks, and at two o'clock in the afternoon of February 3, 1915, they ascended to direct the fire of the ships' guns by signal. The bombardment was kept up till darkness fell, but it was resumed on the next day.