On the Sea.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 63, 19 June 1916, Page 5

On the Sea.

FATAL COLLISION.

TORPEDOE~ LOST IN THE EMO L33H CHANNEL. i.on<lon, June 17. Official; The toi pedoor Eden aas sunk in a collision in the Channel last night. One officer and thirty men men were saved. Three officer.* were In; t.

The, Fdcu was a small torpedo-boat destroyer of the “E’’ class built bo-

twoon 15)06 and 15)06, of .160 tons displacement, with liorse-power of 7.600, developing 2.6 knots an hour. i'he Edon’s armament consisted of four 12-ponnclers, and two 18-inch torpedotubes. The complement on this class of boat is less than 100.

BALTIC OPERATIONS.

TWO GERMAN STEAMERS SUNK.

Copenhagen, June 17

Fishermen at Oxolocsund saw two large German steamers sunk by gunfire on Friday morning.

AFTER CORONEL. MEMORIAL TO ADMIRAL CRADOCK. London, .June 17. A monument to Admiral CTadock. who was lost in the Coronel naval fight, was unvoilod at York Minster. The cathedral was crowded, and after the Last Post had been sounded, at the end of a solemn service, Mr A. J. Balfour unveiled a beaut if ill marble alabaster memorial. Me said that Admiral Cradook’s deed was not one. of uncalculating daring, but was inspired by higher wisdom than calculation and higher courage than daring. Ho attacked the enemy because be know that the German fleet in the Pacific was far from dockyards where it could refit, and no friendly bases were open if the vessels suffered damage, and their power for evil would be utterly destroyed. Admiral CTadock was nnablo to foresee the battle of the Falklands; he only knew that the Gorman squadron was a great peril in the Pacific while if remained efficient. Admiral Cradock had judged that his squadron would he well sacrificed if it destroyed the power of the hostile fleet.

Mr Balfour continued:; “If LlJnvi right in estimating Admiral Cradock’s motives, there was never a nobler act, unsuccessful though it was, than the Coronel fight. Admiral Cradock and his comrades have won an immortal place on the roll of naviil. heroes who have built up the Empire ”

THE JUTLAND FIGHT.

DECISIVE AND GLORIOUS.

SUPERIORITY OF THE BRITISH. GERMANS: “HELTER-SKELTER-ED TO SAFETY." ’ s fUnited Press Association,! (Received 9.10 a.m.) London, June 18.

Admiral Sir Cyprian Bridge, in an article forecasting!/Admiral Jelliooo’s despatch, said he was convinced it would show that-the victory was decisive and glorious on the first of June, and nearly, if not quite as decisive as Admiral Rodney’s on th</ 12th April. 1782; also that we were superior in strategy, tactics, gunnery, and enterprise. There never had. been finer leading or more gallant following.

Admirals Hood and Arbutlmot have left behind them names covered with glory. The captains, officers, and ships’ companies responded nobly. The violence of Admiral Beatty’s attacks demoralised and confused the enemy.

The Germans admit that a German ship rammed- the Elbing, and it is understood that a German rammed one or two of their own submarines. The ships were ordered to retreat and they “better skcl .?w ' to safety, failing to preserve their formation.

Our losses were less heavy than students of naval war under modern conditions expected.

Battle of tho Salutes.—ln 1782 the French admiral, the Comte do Grasse, left Martinique with a view to effecting the conquest of Jamaica. Admiral Rodney, who was at St. Lucia, learned of the movement, and put to sea, and a running fight went on from the 9th April till tho Pith. In the great battle of the 12th, which the French know as that of Dominica, Admiral Rodney and his men cut the French line m three places, and threw it into confusion, the French being decisively defeated, with the loss of live ships of tho line.

Writing on the Jutland battle “The General,” in the Auckland Herald,

nays;—“Those who expected the whole German fleet* to ho sunk at the fust brush ignore the most obvious of all facts of the battle—that if it was to be a fight at all it had to be begun with the advantage on the the German side and they neglect to pay a due tribute to the men who went wholeheartedly into it, knowing that they were out-shipped, out-gunned, and out-manned. Beatty might have waited for Jellicoe, Gut the Germans would not have waited lor both, I bey fought Realty because they thought they could heat him, and Beatty and ids men fought, knowing that alone they could not win, but hoping to cut off the Germans and hold them at sea