THE PRINZ ADALBERT.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 8, Issue 129, 1 June 1916, Page 3

THE PRINZ ADALBERT.

CRUISER FATED TO FALL VICTIM TO BRITISH SUBMARINE

The Ribe correspondent of the ‘ Stiftstidende’ has obtained some details hitherto kept secret of the fate of the German armoured cruiser Prinz Adalbert. The vessel left Kiel on August 14th, 1913. for Libau, but never arrived there. She was torpedoed by a British submarine, and was towed back to Kier the following SSnnday by two large tugs. She was towed stern first, as her hows were shattered, and all her heavy ems had to be moved aft to prevent her sinking. Later an attempt was made to get her under her.own steam, in order to avoid attracting nnnloasant attention, but the experiment had to be abandoned as she began to sink as soon ns her engines were started. T*ie cruiser was eventually got to port amt was thoroughly repaired. Then the Priuz Adalbert again started for Libau about the 3rd of last October, and met her fate on October 24th, being again torpedoed by a British submarine, and going down with a crew of (500, of whom only SO were saved. When the Gorman official News Bureau published a statement of the German losses in the Baltic' this incident was not mentioned. (It was announced on August 2Tslast that a British submarine in the Baltic had torpedoed the German cruiser Moltke, or a vessel of that type; and the loss of the Prinz Adalbert through being sunk by a British submarine was announced on October 24th.)