Although it was announced that the battleship _Russell_ struck a mine in the Mediterranean, the Germans claimed that she was sunk by one of their U-boats. This was the second pre-Dreadnought and the third flagship to pay the price of Admiralty during the war. The _Russell_, named after one of six famous admirals, was commissioned in 1903, and completed her career on the 27th April, 1916. She carried four 12–in., twelve 6–in., ten 12–pdr., and two 3–pdr. guns, and four torpedo-tubes. Although Rear-Admiral S. R. Fremantle, M.V.O., the captain, twenty-four other officers, and 676 men were saved, over 100 of her complement were reported as missing. Of the five capital ships lost by Britain in the Dardanelles campaign, the _Ocean_ and the _Irresistible_ were lost by mines or torpedoed from the shore, the _Goliath_ was torpedoed in a destroyer attack, and the _Triumph_ and the _Majestic_ were submarined. On the 22nd May, 1915, the periscope of a U-boat was sighted from the battleship _Prince George_. A couple of rounds made the submersible take cover. That was the first occasion on which enemy underwater craft had put in an appearance in the vicinity of the Gallipoli peninsula. Three days later the _Swiftsure_ was on the verge of being attacked, but her gunners proved too wide-awake and drove off the enemy. A little later the submarine discharged a torpedo at the _Vengeance_, and missed. On the 26th the enemy was seen again, escaped, and plugged two or three torpedoes into the _Triumph_, lying stationary off the now famous, or infamous, Gaba Tepe. Her nets were down, but the weapons went through them with almost as much ease as a circus clown jumps through a hoop covered with tissue-paper. Henceforth devotees of this form of protection had little to say. The battleship disappeared in fifteen minutes, fortunately without a heavy roll of casualties. Three officers and fifty-three of her considerable company were lost. Like the _Swiftsure_, her sister ship, the _Triumph_ was built for the Chilian Government and purchased by Britain.