MINED IN THE NORTH 'SEA

Dominion, Volume 9, Issue 2718, 13 March 1916, Page 5

MINED IN THE NORTH 'SEA

DESTROYER AND TORPEDO. BOAT London March 10, 2.30 i TJie High Commissioner reports: -i . The Admiralty announces thai tho' | British dostroyer Coquette, command-... j cd by Lieut. Vers Seymour, and Torpedo ] Boat No. 11, commanded by Lieut. ] John A. P. Legli, struck mines on the i East Coast- and sank. ' ] The casualties were: Coquette, one ] officer and twenty-one men; Torpedo j Boat' No., 11, three officers and twenty, ! teen. ; [The Coquette belonged to the so- "j called "D" class of destroyers, completed between 1897 and 1900. Tkoy ' uverago 300 tons, have engines of 6000 I h.p., with" a speed of 30 knots per hour," and armed with one 12-pounder, five ; smaller guns, and two torpedo tubes. > They carry a complement of sixty offi-. cers and men. Very few of them can j make tho maximum speed for . any - j length . of. time,, and, the. average, sea - .. i speed can be put at. 24 ;knots.- • j No. 11 torpedo boat --was launched * ; at Yarrow! in. 1907. Her disphoov ment is. 225 tons; she steamed 26 knots, j and had a crew of 35 all told. She ; carried two 12-pounders and three 1&- j inch tubes.l- j - SOWING THE SEA. WITH GERMAN-MADE MINES. 1 Copenhagen, March 10. ! A Norwegian captain reports that tb( i North Sea is full of German mines. i .. .- I THE HINDENBURC WITH THE j FLEET. | (Ecc. March 12, 11:10 p.m.) " j Copenhagen, March 11. j . It is stated that_ the German Fleet ' in the North Sea included the ne\« j Dreadnought Hindenburg. . ' • i • . . . t ■