THE LOST GERMAN DREADNOUGHT

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2629, 26 November 1915, Page 5

THE LOST GERMAN DREADNOUGHT

TWO AND A HALF MILLIONS BLOWN UP By Telegraph—Prws Association—Copyright London, November 24. Copenhagen reports that the name of the new German Dreadnought which wag reported to have struck a mine in the Baltic on Friday was tho Markgraf. [The Markgraf is in the Konig class, and cost approximately two and a half millions. She was of 26,575 tons, and was completed in 1914. She carried ten 12-inch, fourteen 6.9 inch, with smaller armament. Her speed was 21 knots, and she carried a complement of 1073 officers and men.]

RUMOURED LOSS OF ANOTHER BATTUE-CRUISER. derffLinger mined and sunk. (Rec. November 25, 1115 p.m. Rotterdam, November 25. A persistent report is current that the German battle-cruiser Dertflinger has been mined and sunk in the Baltic, and that thirty-three of the crew were drowned.' * [The Derfflinger (28,000 tons) is a 27knot battle-cruiser, completed this year, and carried eight 12-inch, twelve 5.9inch guns, and smaller armament.] SUBMARINE INVASION OF THE BALTIC ANOTHER BRITISH FLOTILLA ARRIVES. (Rec. November 25, 9.20 p.m. Copenhagen, .November 25. Another British flotilla of submarines has arrived off the erit -ance to the Sound, and is awaiting the Srßt fog for an opportunity to slip into the Baltic.