BRITISH BATTLESHIP SUNK.

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2462, 15 May 1915, Page 6

BRITISH BATTLESHIP SUNK.

'• ' ' —- TORPEDOED IN DARDANELLES "FIVE HUNDRED OFFICERS AND ■ MEN LOST 1 , . TWO TURKISH GUNBOATS AND TRANSPORT. SIM (By Telegraph.—Preeß Assn.—Copyright,) . London, May 13. ■ ' The British battleship Goliath was fcorpeaoed in the Dardanelles. Five '' . tfundred officers , and men perished. . Twenty officers and 160 men were rescued. [H.M.S. Goliath, a battleship of the Canopus class, was completed in 1900. She displaced 12,950 tons, and had a speed of between eighteen and nineteen, knots. The armament in this class consists of four 12in., twelve Bin., and'ton 12-pounder guns, none of .modem type. The armour is com- ' paratively light, being only sis inches thick on the waterline, but the turrets -,£tß twelve inches thick. The Goliath and her sisters cost about £850,000. J .H.M.S. Ocean, which was sunk in the Dardanelles on March 18, was e. sister .. * ishipjLondon,' May 13. Mr. Churchill,. Mrst Lord of the Admiralty, stated in the House of Com- ' 'toons that the Goliath had been torpedoed by a destroyer last night, when '' : protecting the French flank inside the straits. EFFECTIVE .WORK BY BRITISH SUBMARINE. London, May 13. Submarine El 4 sank tiro Turkish gunboats and a large transport. BRITISH SUBMARINES IN THE SEA OF MARMORA SPREAD PANIC AMONGST.TURKISH SHIPPING. (Rec. May 14, 11.30 p.m.) Tenedos. Island, May 14. Two British' submarines, passed the Dardanelles' mine-field and entered .the Sea of Marmora a fortnight ago. The .Turks claim to , have captured them, but until a few days ago the submarines had it all their- own way between .Gallipoli .and Constantinople, sinking vessels, providing themselves with fuel •sand provisions, and spreading panic among Turkish shipping. • GERMAN SUBMARINES IN THE MEDITERRANEAN. . (Rec. May 14, 9.15 p.m.) • . . Athens, May.. 14. German submarines have appearedin the Mediterranean. i . The British Legation here offers five hundred pounds sterling to anyone giving information. I' JINKING OF THE AUSTRALIAN AE2 NOT. CONFIRMED. ■ ' ' Melbourne, May 14. ' . In tie Federal Senate, Senator Pearce. Defence Minister, stated that he Kad received a cable message from the Admiralty to the effect that the Turkish report of the sinking of-the Australian submarine AE2 bad not been con- . ail-mod. TURKISH HEADQUARTERS STAFF MOVING OUT. Athens, May 13. . ' ; The Turkish headquarters staff at Gallipoli has been transferred to RodoBtoi. on the north sido of tho' Sea of Marmora, about oighty miles east 'of ; ■ Gallipoli. ■