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The Second Battle of Kefken Island, or the Second Battle of Kefken Island, was a small naval battle fought during the Black Sea campaign of World War I. On November 29, 1915 the German U-boat SM ''U-13'' was shadowing five Russian merchant ships when she ran aground off the mouth of the Sakarya River. Admiral Wilhelm Souchon, the German commander of the Ottoman Navy sent two gunboats to recover the wreck. During the following cruise, the three Russian Derzky class destroyers ''Derzky'', ''Gnevny'' and ''Bespokoiny'' encountered the gunboats ''Taşköprü'' and ''Yozgat''. In the following combat the Russian gunners fired accurately and quickly sank both of the gunboats off Kefken Island on December 10, 1915.〔Halpern, Paul G., ''A Naval History of World War I'', Routledge New York (1994), ISBN 1-85728-498-4, (p. 237. )〕〔Bernd Langensiepen, Ahmet Güleryüz, ''The Ottoman Steam Navy, 1828-1923'', Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, Maryland, 1995, ISBN 1-55750-659-0, pp. 163-164.〕 ==Order of Battle== Ottoman Navy: *''Taşköprü'', gunboat *''Yozgat'', gunboat Russian Navy: *''Derzky'', destroyer *''Gnevny'', destroyer *''Bespokoiny'', destroyer 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Second Battle of Kirpen Island」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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