Dominic Sandbrook
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They end up being riddled with Turkish bullets and
It's a terrible, terrible scene.
Private Robert Martin.
So that's...
That's not great.
No.
And then what about this ship, the River Clyde?
Yeah, I'm sure that comes to the rescue.
It's just sitting there.
It's just sitting there, right?
And the Turks are just hammering shells at it and bullets.
Oh, it's a mad idea to have done that then.
Because the men can't jump off.
They're in six feet of water.
Their packs are so heavy, they would just be dragged down and drowned.
And this guy who came up with the idea, Unwin, can see that it's all falling apart.
And to his massive credit, he says, I will fix this.
And he takes an able seaman with the excellent name of William Williams.
They jump into the sea.
They've got all these barges with them.