NAVAL BALANCE-SHEET OF THE WAR.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVII, Issue 248, 29 March 1915, Page 2

NAVAL BALANCE-SHEET OF THE WAR.

GERMANS LOSE FIFTY-NINE FIGHTING CRAFT.

The British and Gorman naval losses since the outbreak of the war may be stated thus:—

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Battleships. Bulwark, accidentally .blown 'up; Formidable, sunk by submarine: Irresistible and Ocean, lost in Dardanelles. Total, 4. Armoured Cruisers.—Aboukir, Creasy, Hoguo, sunk by submarines; Good Hope, Monmouth, sunk in Pacific. Total 5.

T-iight Cruisers.—Ampliion, sunk by mine; Pathfinder, sunk by submarine; Pfffnsus, sunk at Zanzibar; .LTcwkc, sunk by submarine; Hermes sunk by submarine. Total, 5.

Armed Liners.—Oceanic, wrecked; Viknor, sunk by mine; Clan Macnau'hton, lost in gale; Bayano, sunk by submarine. Total 4.

Destroyers, 0. Submarines (one Australian) 1 Gunboats, 2. Total vessels lost, 23.

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Battleships, 0.

Armoured Cruisers.—Yorck, sunk by mine; Sehamhorst, Gneisenau,,sunk off Falklands; Blucher, sunk in North Sea. Total 4.

Light Cruisers.—Miwileburg, sunk by Russian Fleet; Mainz,' Koln, Ariadne, sunk in Heligoland fight; Hela, bottled up; Geier, interned at Honolulu; Emden, driven ashore by Sydney; Lcipsic and Nurnburg, sunk oft Falklands; Cormoran, interned at Guam; Kolberg, sunk iii North Sea; Dresden, sunk off Juan Fernandez; Karlsruhe, sunk near West Indies. Total H.

Armed Liners.—Kaiser Willielm der Grosse, s'irik; Bethania and Rprcewaid captured; Cap Trafalgar, sunk by Carmania; Berlin, interned in Nonvav Total, 5.

Destroyers, 0. Submarines, 19. Gunboats, 8.

Total vessels lost, 59. In addition the Germans have lost ftve auxiliary craft, including the mirifelayer Komgen Louise, which was sunk at the mouth of the Thames, and the Locksun, which is interned at Honolulu. The British have lost one auxiliary, Froguard IL, which was sunk in a <ml« in the English Channel. An unconfirmed report from London on February 24 stated that the German armed liner Jfavarra liad been sunk.

I There has been an unconfirmed report I of the sinking of the German battlecrmser Von DerTann. A message 'mm Amsterdam on January 12 stated that , , Go ™ an Protected cruiser Bremen had collided with a mine in the North Shea, ami had arrived at Wilhelmshaven ma seriously damaged condition. ine Russians claim to have destroyed a number of German destroyers, the Merman battle-cruiser Kaiser' Winelm Tfert f oss %T d :t,,e Gcrmm 'Wt cm Z 5 piously damaged the light luiser I. The Aiistrians are reported to ? : haV .tet one battleship, two^ruiLJtt; destroyers, and eight torpedo boats. The ™ k h Y? .lost the battleship Messudieli, which was sunk, in the Dardanelesbytheßritislisubmarineßi the large cruiser Goeben, taken over from 18 sad to be lying ln the Bosplioriw in a helpless and disarmed condition.