"At 12:22 o'clock the French squadron, consisting of the Suffren, Gaulois, Charlemagne and Bouvet, advanced up the Dardanelles and engaged the forts at closer range.

As the French squadron, which had engaged the forts in a most brilliant fashion, was passing out, the Bouvet was blown up by a drifting mine.

"The British casualties in personnel were not heavy considering the scale of the operations, but practically the whole of the crew of the Bouvet were lost with the ship, an internal explosion having apparently supervened on the explosion of the mine."

[About 500 lives were lost on the Bouvet.]

" The sinking of the battle cruisers Irresistible, Ocean and Bouvet was the heaviest loss sustained by the Allies since the war began.

The Irresistible, the Ocean and the Bouvet were all sunk in portions of the straits which had been swept clear of anchored mines, and the drifting mines which proved so deadly were undoubtedly set afloat by the Turks, probably under the direction of German officers, on the swift current of the Dardanelles at points near the allied ships after the action began.

He was to call at Madeira for a supply of wine; to sail for the Cape of Good Hope and there refresh his men; then to look for Cape Circumcision, placed by M. Bouvet in 54 degrees South, 11 degrees 20 minutes East, to determine if it formed part of a continent, and if so to explore it, following the coast and endeavouring to get as near to the South Pole as he could without endangering his ships or crews.

Gradually working down to 60 degrees South in the longitude given for Cape Circumcision, and being some ninety-five leagues further south, with no signs of land, Cook concluded that M. Bouvet must have been deceived by the ice.

(Bouvet Island was discovered by the German Deep Sea Discovery ship Valdivia on 25th November 1898.

Bouvet, actually did arrive.]

Leander swam the Dardanelles (or Hellespont) close to where the Irresistible and Bouvet were sunk; the wind that blew in our faces that morning was the same that rippled the drapery of the Winged Victory.

On March 18 the Irresistible, Ocean, and Bouvet were sunk, and it began to be apparent that the Dardanelles could not be forced without the help of a powerful land force.

To the left, a bit farther out, were the waters in which the Irresistible, Ocean, and Bouvet were sunk, and even now, off the point, ten or twelve miles away, hung the smoke of sister ships.

But I was confident, for my écarté play was as famous as my swordsmanship, and save old Bouvet of the Hussars of Bercheny, who won seventy-six out of one hundred and fifty games off me, I have always had the best of a series.

Ah, how I longed that old Bouvet, or any of my comrades of the hussars, was there, instead of this mummy of a man.

Who should be at the head of the troop but old Bouvet, whom I saved at Leipzig!

Old Bouvet laughed in his wheezy way, until I had to give my moustachios a twirl and look him up and down in a manner which brought him to reason.

Old Bouvet was waiting in the passage when I entered, and he asked me whether we might not crack a bottle of wine together.

Old Bouvet stood with his candle looking here and peeping there, purring in his throat like a cat before a milk-pail.

Bouvet is a brave man: I will say that for him.

'It is all over,' I cried, grasping at Bouvet's sleeve.

I let Bouvet die alone, therefore, and I went down into the cellar again, closing the door behind me.

Bouvet had dropped the candle when the alarm came, and I, pawing about in the darkness, could find nothing but broken bottles.

It only remained for me to save myself, so I came down here and hid myself in the back cellar, where you have found me.' I thought of how old Bouvet had behaved under the same conditions, and the tears sprang to my eyes as I contemplated the glory of France.

It was with one of them that I had saved old Bouvet's life at Leipzig.