BRITISH NAVAL DISASTER.
FORMIDALBE SUNK IN THE CHANNEL.
ONLY 71 MEN RESCUED.
London, Saturday
It is officially announced that the battleship Formidable, a Eister ship to the ill-fat6d Bulwark, was sunk in the Channel yesterday. It is uncertain whether she struck a mine or was torpedoed by a German submarine. Light cruisers which were in the vicinity picked up 71 survivors, but the remainder are missing.
It is possible that more were picked up by other vsssel-s, but nothing is definitely known upon this point.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 734, 6 January 1915, Page 5
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85BRITISH NAVAL DISASTER. King Country Chronicle, Volume IX, Issue 734, 6 January 1915, Page 5
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