ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 12 August 1915, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

BRITISH DESTROYER SUNK. IN THE NORTH SEA, London, AuguU 10. The Admiralty; announce that the destroyer Lynx struck a mine in the North Sea and sank on 'Monday. Four officers, and twenty-two men were saved. (The Lynx belonged to the class of destroyers launched in 1!)12-IH, with a displacement of 028-1000 tons. She was of a designed speed of ;jO-;i2 knots, and carried three -tin quick-lir.r.s and four 21 in torpedo tubes. She had a complement of 100.) | SUNKEN TURKISH CRUISER. MOST OF CREW DROWNED. Received August 11, 10.-10 p.m. Athens, August 11. News from official sources states that the greater part of the Hairredin Barbarossa's crew were drowned. THE BALTIC ACTION. ■BERLIN'S STORY. Received August 12 u 12.2J a.m'. Amsterdam, August 11. BciT-n alleges that the Baltic action was -merely a reeonnaNanco to ascertain the position of the mines. Two small mine-sweepers were lost. ANOTHER NEUTRAL SUNK. Received August 11. S..'i p.m. Amsterdam. August 11. Another Norwegian steamier has been sunk. The crew was rescued after being nine hours and a half in the boats. ESCAPE OF AN EMDEN OFFICER. Times and Sydney Sun Services. London, August 10. Paris learns that Captain Lanlerbacli, second in command of the Emden, has escaped from internment at Singapore ami has reached Batavia. THE BAG OF THE Eli. IN THE SEA OF .MARMORA. SHARiiiSHtWIvi; WITH "TIN FISHES." London. July i. The story of the cruise of submarine Ell in the Sea of Marmora, which won for Lieutenant-Commander Naswith the Victoria Croi?, and for each member of the crew the D.C.M., has yet to be done justice to in print, but a letter from one of the crew, wihhb recently reached England, give/> n very breezy tiro? interesting outline of what occurred during that perilous and eventful voyage. He " We left Inferos one morning about

three o'clock, and steamed towards the 'Dardanelles, and dived as day wis breaking, and—well, got through The Xarrows O.K. Arrived the other side, and saw two battleships. We were getting ready to torpedo one, of 'em, when *they spotted us, opened lire on us, and nipped—tanked— run away! We then journeyed on for a mile or two, and then went to the bottom and rested until about 8 p.m. (,'ame up—'twas dusk, so we looked round—nothing in sight; broke surface and entered the Soa of Marmora. Humped around for a few days witbout sighting a thing until hiie Sunday morning, when we saw a big fuinboat, and at 11.-»-> a.m. we gave her a tin fUli; by (j.,'to a.m. the'was no more, lint just before she. sank, while she was listing over, they opened (ire on us; the second shot hit -our periscope and 'done it in.' That gunner m'isi have been a cool eard, eh?" The result of the '''cool card's " shot was no doubt the reason of the Turkish claim to have sunk a submarine about this time. But the "done i»" ■periscope was the only damage the shot did, and that must soon have been replaced, for the sailor's narrative proceed'; thus:— GOOD TIUXTIXG. "On the Monday We sighted a steamer, uime to the surface alongside her, and told her to stop. She stopped, and the men were so anxious to get* clear that one boat capsized—no lives lost. Yankee correspondent aboard who tried to bluff; no <, oo <[ t t ho*, 'cos an officer and two men boarded her. ami discovered she had a si.v-inch gnu' several gun-mountings, and fifteen-inch ammunition aboard, so we blew her up Few minutes after sighted another steamer; told her to stop-she wouldn't; chased her in harbor, and when she was' seemed alongside the pier we torpedoed her. Soon after we sighted another* steamer. Chased her until she ran ashore. We were about to board hcl ' wllt ' ll some cavairv came up ami opened lire; we replied, and dropped a lew-, and then dived and torpedoed the, ship. "*ext day, Tuesday, our skipper decided on entering Constantinople.- To make a long story, short, we got into Hie harbor without mishap, and fired two torpedoes, one of which sank'a transport loaded with troops, and the other exploded on the shore somewhere. We learned afterwards that it caused some panic. The troops refused to no on another transport, the shops closed and people ran up the bills; j„ f act ' it caused an uproar for a time." TRANSPORT SXIPim This was indeed "good hunting.'' but some blank days ensued, or things happened concerning which the submarine's crew was cautioned to "keep dark," for'it was not until Friday that the under-wator craft recommenced its work of destruction. Our narrator con-, tinues:— "On Friday .morning we saw five transports escorted by destroyers. We bagged the first and biggest one, which sank in about three minutes. A few days later wo went hack to our old corner, where we sank those other three, and caught a supply ship napping. A few days later we torpedoed a German | 'transport, and then we got no more blood for a t-uie. until 'last Monday morning on our way back, just before entering The Xarrows, we sank another transport. That was our farewell smack. "When we broke surface that evening we found a mine hangiiej over our bows. Chucked it off as quisle as poss., 'when our escort came up, gave us three cheers, and off we' went. When Ave entered the harbor it was dark. 'Had it been daylight, the adimral would have made us steam round the fleet. All the ships,we passed as we were making for the Adamant cheered us." The Ell "bagged" nine enemv ships in the course of ten or twelve days, which is a record of which her commander and crew may well be proud. There were no innocent merchantmen among their victims,