GERMAN DREADNOUGHT CAPTURED

Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 2222, 7 August 1914, Page 5

GERMAN DREADNOUGHT CAPTURED

BIG PRIZE FOR FRENCH NAVY THREE WARSHIPS TAKEN OFF ALGERIA mi ti ■ i' „ , 1 London, August 5. urn -Biench licet off Algeria capturedthe German-Dreadnought cruiser Goeben, the .*mnll cruiser Bmlau/ and sank tho gunboat Panther. . A German .cruiser fired sixty shots at. Bona, an Algerian fortified town. The batteries replied. The cruiser left in the direction of Gibraltar. It is believed m-r-aris that she has been captured by British vessels guarding the Straits. ' ,Tho Goeben .is-a Dreadnought cruiser of 23,000 tons, built in 1911. She «a"ies ten 11-inch guns and has a speed of 29' knots. ~ The Breslauis.a small cruiser of "4700 tons, carrying 'twelve 'Win. guns, and has a-speed of about 25 knots. ' - _ The Panther is a gunboat of 1000 tons, which figured prominently during the Morocco crisis of some-years ago. .'<-••■. :

. THE CAPTUitED GERMAN BATTLE-CEUISEB OOEBEN. ■:■■/' The Goeben has a, displacement of 2 3,000 tons, carries■ ien 11-inch, twelve 6:Uich, ana 'twelve 12-pduuder guns, is equipped withi fq-ur 19.5-inoli torpedo tubes, and nas a speed of 28 knots or over.- Sh.e is driven }>j Parsons turbine engines, and has four screws. Her , length (lvaterl ine) is 590Vft., beam 97ft. Slio was launched in 1911. Her complement is 1012 men. " . • ■

;'■'"■■■ GUN PI4N. OF THE. GOEBEN* ■■;;.■ Broadside, ten 11-incn, six β-iiich. Ahead, six. 11-inol, two 6-inch, Astern: eight 11-inch, .two 6-inch. .-' ■'.■■'. . ■ ;

7 ' : :... .GUN PLAN OF NEW ZEALAND. ■ .'■,.-.'■'. For of comparison, we have shown the.Gun PlanNif. H.M.S, Now ■Zealand alongside'that of the capturedbattle-cruiser.- The ,New Zealand has a displacement 0f>.19,000 ton 9, carries eight liinch,"ind twenty:4-inclr guns, iseqnipped with ;2i-inch torpedo tubes, and has a speed of over 29 knots, '•jjhe is driven by Parsons turbino 'endnes, and has four eofewe. JEer length (vdteflme) is 578 ft., beam"79-Jft. She was , launched.in 1912. ■ ■. ■ ■' ;. • ■■'": ■■ The New Zealandjlias a broadside of eight 12-inch tuns, can fire ahead six--12-inch, and astern 6ix'l2-inch. ' ■ ■-. . !■. :