THE LOSS OF THE TRIUMPH
HOW THE BATTLESHIP WAS •' GUNK, ' London, June 8, The "Daily Telegraph's" correspondent ot the Dardanelles reports t-Wft the survivors state that H.M.S. Triumph was stationary, but not aiir chorea, when the first torpedo was seen coming. It was fired on by the light guns, a shot missing by a couple of inches. The torpedo traversed the netting and probably did little damago: but t/ho second and third missiles, tired almost simultaneously, traversed tho same hole in tho netting. The explosions lifted the ship, and she heeled over rapidly and disappeared in fifteen minutes, bow first. The majority of the crew slipped down the starboard side and swam clear. It was a German submarine of large type which assailed her. It was sighted early in the day and was fired upon, but escaped.
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Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2480, 5 June 1915, Page 5
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137THE LOSS OF THE TRIUMPH Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2480, 5 June 1915, Page 5
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