M30 lost while enforcing the Smyrna blockade

M30 was sunk in May 1916 while enforcing the blockade off Smyrna, where an Austro-Hungarian howitzer battery supported Ottoman forces. She had been completed only in July 1915, leaving less than a year between entering service and her loss. During that short life she had been almost continuously employed in Mediterranean combat operations or patrols. Her fate gives a concrete example of the counter-battery danger that purpose-built shore-support ships accepted whenever they worked close to an enemy coast.