 "Vérité" expended a total of twenty-five 194 mm shells at the targets while "Suffren" employed her 305 mm main battery.The battlecruisers destroyed the magazine in the fortress at Sedd el Bahr and the French ships inflicted significant casualties on the Ottoman garrison, with estimates ranging from 150 to 600 killed and wounded.Guépratte's squadron, which shortly consisted of "Vérité", the battleships , , and (his flagship), was employed as part of the blockade of the Dardanelles.