On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXV, Issue 58, 11 March 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

RUNNING THE BLOCKADE.

FOURTEEN VESSELS SUCCESSFULLY ESCAPE.

' Times and Sydney Sun Service. (Received 8 a.m.) London, March 10

The Admiralty reports that since the first of February fourteen vessels have been unsuccessfully subjected bo submarine attack, several having narsow escapes.

GERMAN VESSELS WILL TAKE

THE RISK.

United Press Association. New York, March 10

Although Customs investigations have not revealed preparations for sailing, precautions have been taken against interned German steamers slipping the harbor. Four destroyers ar© lying in the bay,,

Private inquiries allege that a new pattern deck torpedo-gun was found in the American-Hamburg and the North German Lloyd companies' warehouses. Vessels are ready coaled and able to sail in a few hours.

GERMAN SUBMARINE USO RAM-

MED AND SUNK.

(Received 8.50 a.m.) London, March 10

The Admiralty reports that the Ariel rammed and sunk the German submarine U2O, the crew being made prisoners.

TUESDAY'S SUBMARINE TOLL.

THREE STEAMERS SUNK WITHOUT WARNING. United Press Association. London, March 10. Official.—Three steamers were torpedoed and sunk on Tuesday. The Tangistau, off Scarborough, only one survivor out of 38 aboard. The Blackwood, off Hastings.

The Princess Victoria, off Liverpool. The crews of the latter vessels were saved.

Half of the Tangistau's crew were Lascars. The steamer sank in four minutes, dragging down the lifeboats. The Princess Victoria sighted the torpedo, but had no time to manoeuvre, and sank in ten minutes. The Blackwood sank in fifteen minutes.

ESCAPE OF THE CLAN MCRAE. Loudon, March IQ. The steamer Clan Meßae eluded a submarine on the Mersey bar, after being chased for twenty-five minutes. The Clan McEae sighted the submarine six hundred feet away, twelve miles from the Mersey bar, and warned vessels in the vicinity. Some of the crew are of! opinion that there were two submarines.

THE GERMANS CLAIM EICHT VICTIMS.

Amsterdam, March 10

German newspapers claim that the submarine ITI6 cruised in the Orkneys,

Shetlands, and the Faroe Islands, chased the Laertes, sank the Dehvich, St. Ille de Lille, and Dinsrah. On the 28th she sank five vessels.

SUNK WITHOUT WARNING. London, March 10. Three steamers were sunk without warning.

SUBMARINE RAMMED IN THE IRISH SEA.

(Received 11.45 a.m. 1 ! London, March 10

Captain White, now in America, claims that the steamer Overdue sank a submarine in the Irish Sea on January 1. When the vessel was dry-docked at Queenstown, it was found that two ; blades of her propellor had been lost 'and some plates were damaged.

THE LOST SUBMARINE U2O.

(Received 11.45 a.m.) London, March 10

The radius of the TJ2O was two thousand miles, tonnage 650, surface speed fourteen knots, horsepower 1400, and she had four torpedo tubes, one four-teen-pound gun and two one-pound-ers.

WORK IN DARDANELLES.

Loudon, March 10

The Petit Parisieu states that minesweepers in the Dardanelles, protected by a French squadron, destroyed five rows of mines in tho vicinity of Chanak.

The Turks have replaced the silence! batteries.with, field-guns, their shrapnel causing insignificant damage. Hie Queen Elizabeth and Irresistible replied with overwhelming effectiveness at twelve thousand yards.

BAD WEATHER HINDERS OPER-

ATIONS.

AN ADMIRAL'S NARROW ESCAPE

(Received 8.50 a.m.) Paris, March 10

Officia.l—H.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, with four battelships supporting her, bombarded Rumili on Monday inside tho Straits, but bad weather hindered operations. The Suffren advanced •to the edge of the minefield, where Admiral Geu]>intte had a narrow escape from fragments of shell.