The Messudiye gun at Anzac today. In March 1919, official historian Charles Bean described a naval gun he saw just beyond Baby 700 Cemetery on Gallipoli:
At the time of our visit there stood, on an open patch on the inland side of the summit, of Baby 700, a solitary 6-inch gun with a few shells-the only armament then remaining at Anzac, and still guarded by three Turkish soldiers. [Charles Bean, Gallipoli Mission, Sydney, 1990, pp.101-102]
This gun is thought to have been salvaged from the Turkish battleship Messudiye, sunk by the British submarine B11 on 13 December 1914. It is still visible just off the road out of the old Anzac position leading up to Chunuk Bair past Baby 700 Cemetery. A Turkish sign points to the ‘Messudiye Topu’ (Messudiye gun).