SINKING OF THE PEGASUS
THE FIGHT AT ZANZIBAR. (Rec. October 27, 10.20 p.m.) London, October 26. Router's South African Agency Bupplies further particulars of the sinking of the old British cruiser Pegasus near Zan-' zibar some time ago (reported on September 22). It appears that the enemy's cruiser Koenigsburg approached at full speed at 5 o'clock on tho Sunday morning. She first disabled the patrol boat -with three shots, and then opened firo on the Pegasus at 9000 yards. All the Pegasus' b broadside was engaged. Her guns were disabled in fifteen minutes. After, a lull, the •Koenigsberg again opened fire, and in another quarter of an hour tho Pegasus was unable to reply. Nearly all the casualties occurred round the guns and on the tipper deck. The ship _ was badly holed on the waterline, and listed heavily; the fires were put out, and the vessel was moved into shallow water, and grounded forward. . Wind and tide subsequently drove her deeper into the water, and she eventually sank. The flag was twice Bhot away, and marines held it up.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2292, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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179SINKING OF THE PEGASUS Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2292, 28 October 1914, Page 5
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