[Admiral Von Gerlach]

The bombardment of the Turkish Batteries at Gallipoli is an excellent example of the changes in naval doctrine that were required by new weapons and tactics, up until them bombardment was quite often used by fleets in aciton, but during that engagement a number of ships were sunk including some capital ones partly by mines and partly by return fire from the shore. So it was a transitional time for many aspects of naval warfare.

Submarines are actually an extension of a very old tactic, that of the floating fort idea, they contain heavy armament for their size, ie torpedoes which can sink a capital ship with a single hit.... however the submareine is literally a floating "gun" which fires along its axis...and is very vulnerable to the sides and to the wider environemnt. Due to the in line demands of the machinery of that era, and even WWII, the entire ship was literally a floating engine with main armament fore and aft, at each end. So it was difficult to develop new tactics and even new strategy for it.

The USN was innovative in that they developed boats that would cruise at sea for six weeks successfully and project force into formerly 'safe" territory, and used with unrestricted attack, were quite deadly. WWI was an interesting era for many aspects of naval warfare and war in general were tested and developed from very early beginnings and often at a high speed. The pay off of speed of production of a new model of ship was often paid for in losses due to incompletley tested aspects of the new classes, so literally sea trials were carried out in action, and some nations did not have the industrial base to turn things around fast enough to really benefit from design innovations that they themselves made, as in the case of Austro Hungarian advances in submarine design which they themselves could not really manufacture in time, also same for Italian innovations, the British fleet which could have developed new ship types fastest of anyone was conservative due to the theory held by the highest ranks, which also happened to the Japanese fleet during WWII, so that capacity was not matched by results.