In his speech at Dundee on June 5, from which the passage
concerning the Dardanelles is reproduced below, Winston
Spencer Churchill's reference to "losses of ships"
constituted the official comment on the sinking by submarine
attack on May 26 and 27 of the British battleships Triumph
in the Gulf of Saros, and Majestic off Sedd-el-Bahr. That
increased to six the sum of battleships lost to the Allies
in the Dardanelles operations. The review of the operations
from May 15 to June 17, shows a development of slow trench
warfare on land, which postpones the attainment of a few
miles to a victory confidently predicted by Mr. Churchill.