Thanks, Les. I'll check out Moorehead's book. Should be obtainable.

It's interesting there seem to be some real discrepancies in sources--even over facts. Manchester says point blank that aside from Bouvet, all the ships could have been repaired--and were destined for the scrap heap anyway. I can't really tell what his precise sources are, though, even from the copious footnotes.

But isn't it true that if the fleet had continued through the Narrows, it could have rather easily taken Constantinople? And that's what WSC planned.