On the Sea

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVIV, Issue 97, 30 March 1916, Page 5

On the Sea

THE SUSSEX'S CASUALTY LIST. United Peehb Asbocktiok. London, March 28. Two Americans who were aboard the Manchester Engineer states that tho vessel was torpedoed without warning. An official estimate i s that fifty persons are missing from the Sussex. SPLENDID SEAMANSHIP. London, March 28. The Admiralty reports that all the ships employed in the operations on the. German coast returned, except the Medusa, which sank after all the crew had been taken off, during very •ad weather, by the destroyer Lassoo. It was a fine piece of seamanship. Our destroyers, while dealing with the enemy patrol vessels, were themselves attacked by air craft, but without damage. They rescued twenty prisoners from two patrol trawlers, which we sank.

STIRRING STORY OF THE SEA. London, March 28. A stirring story of the sea is told in an Order of the Day issued by the Army Council, describing the calmness and soldierly promptitude of the Ist Lincolnshire Yeomanry on board the transport Mexican in tho Mediterranean early in November. A submarine heavily 'shelled the Mexican, thirty shells striking her in 75 minutes of firing. A bugle called the men to their posts, where excellent discipline was maintained. Six officers and <0 men were killed or wounded. LAST MONTH'S LOSSES. London, March 28. Liverpool underwriters estimate that the cost of the principal steamship losses in February was £3,<58,000, £2,333,000 being attributable to the war.