On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIII, Issue 31, 5 October 1915, Page 5

On the Sea

VARNA THREATENED. RUSSIA'S BLACK SEA FLEET. (Received J). 10 a.m.) Pome. October 4. The Tribuna states that two powerful Russian squadrons are threatening Varna. (Varna is a fortified town, and the chief seaport ol' Bulgaria, mi the Black Sea. with a population of ncwiy .':.<).- 000). THE END OF THE GOLIATH. HOW IT WAS DONE. United Press Association. ' (Received 9.10 a.m.) Paris, October I. A romantic story is being circulated of the sinking of H.-M.S. Goliath- on I.4th .May. Fourteen destroyers, divided into parallel lines, protected the battleship, the destroyers alternately steamed slowly upstream and drifted back again. The. night was very dark, but the look-out on the Goliath to'wards midnight thought he noticed eight destroyers in one line instead of seven; then a torpedo struck the ship. It appeals that a Turkish destroyer manned by Germans slipped in the British line of destroyers and awaited the moment to torpedo the Goliath at live hundred yards. ! (The Goliath was one of the Canopus class, of 12.950 tons, with a speed of I!) knots, built in 1900-1902, the I armament being all of obsolescent pattern).