SS River Clyde was a 3,913 GRT British collier built by Russell & Co of Port Glasgow on the Firth of Clyde and completed in March 1905. In the First World War the Admiralty requisitioned her for the R
River Clyde at V Beach on the Gallipoli peninsula, showing disembarkation ports cut in her starboard side.
Soldiers of the Australian 2nd Infantry Brigade disembarking at V Beach on 6 May 1915, for the Second Battle of Krithia. River Clyde is beached and serving as a quay. The light coloured patch on her starboard bow is part of her unfinished yellow camouflage.
The Base Camp, Cape Helles, Under Shell Fire. The SS River Clyde is seen aground. By Norman Wilkinson, August 1915.
The landing at Cape Helles was part of the Gallipoli campaign, the amphibious landings on the Gallipoli peninsula by British and French forces on 25 April 1915 during the First World War. Helles, at t
SS River Clyde
…Field Company RE and other detachments of the 88th Brigade, 29th Division to River Clyde. On 25 April 1915 River Clyde sailed to take part in the landing at Cape Helles. She was carrying 2,000 soldiers; mostly from 86th Brigade, units of the 29th Division, the 1st Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers and men from…
Sedd-el-Bahr fort seen from the bow of SS River Clyde during the landing at V Beach
V Beach about two days after the landing, seen from the bow of River Clyde
Modern view of V Beach from Cape Helles. Sedd-el-Bahr (Seddülbahir in modern Turkish) is in the background with Sedd-el-Bahr fort behind it. V Beach CWGC Cemetery is in the middle of the picture.