The Turkish Naval Base at the Dead Sea during World War IPart 2 to a Previous Posting on Weapons Found at the Dead Sea

Unloading grain at the Dead Sea (1917)

Last week we posted a feature on the origins of a cache of antique German weapons found recently at the Dead Sea. The posting showed pictures of a World War I Turkish naval base and abandoned Turkish defense lines at the Dead Sea.

Turkish delegation received at Dead
Sea dock (1916)

The Turks' "Dead Sea Flotilla" (1917)



Towing barges of wheat (1917)



Shipping grain from the south end of
the Dead Sea to the north. No roads
connected the north and south parts
of the Dead Sea shores

 




As evidenced in these American Colony-Library of Congress album pictures, the Dead Sea was a major supply route for the Turkish army between eastern and western Palestine, particularly after Britain and its allies blockaded Mediterranean ports.

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