ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 14 August 1915, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

TURKISH GUNBOAT SUNK. BY BRITISH SUBMARINE . London, August 12. Official.—A British submarine torpedoed the Turkish gunboat Berk-i-Satvet in the Dardanelles. (The Bcrk-i-Satvet was a torpedo gunboat of 770 tons, launched at' Kiel in 1900. She carried two 4in and smaller guns.)

CRUISER BLOWN UP. A .NUMBER OF CREW SAVED. London, August 12. The auxiliary cruiser India was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea. Twenty-two officers and one hundred and nineteen men were salved. THE INDIA'S CASUALTIES. Received August 13, 10.15 p.m. Christiana,'' August 13. Two cruisers saved eighty of the India's crew. Eleven of the men who were landed died from the effects of their exposure.

NEVER SAY DIE. " TIIHPIERAHY" ON A RAFT. .Received Augu.it. H, 12.25 a/m. Christiana,' August 13. The survivors of the India were much exhausted, and most of them had to be hoisted on board the rescuing boats. Some of the men were standing on the raft, singing " Tipperary."

THE BARBAROSSA, ACTIVITY IN MARMORA SEA. London, August 12. The Admiralty announces that British' submarines sank a Turkish battleship at the entrance to the Sea of Marmora on Sunday, and torpedoed an empty transport in the Dardanelles. The Turks state that the ship was the Hairredln Barbarossa. It is surmised in naval circles that the announcement that the Barbarossa was lost is intended to cover the more serious loss of the Goeben or Breslau.

IN THE BALTIC. GERMAN FLEET WILL NOT SEEK ACTION. Received August 13, 8.5 p,m. 'Petrograd, August 13. The Germans in force, on August 10, bombarded Aland Skeries and the lighthouses, but put to sea on the appearance of our warships.

THE BLOCKADE. DENMARK'S LOSSES. Received August 13, 7.5 p.m. Copenhagen, August 3. The loss to the Danish mercantile, fleet through mining and torpedoing is four and a half million kroner. The loss through detention of goods for England is estimated at over four million kroner. THE WEEK'S SHIPPING. Received August 3, 7.5 p.m. London, August 13. There were 1396 arrivals and departures during the week ending August 11. Two vessels were submarined, aggregating 5371 tons, and seventeen fulling vessels were lost. DANISH SCHOONER SUNK. Copenhagen, August 12. The Danish schooner Jason has been sunk. The crew landed at Esbjerg. MAIL STEAMER STOPPED. Copenhagen, Augußt 12. A submarine stopped the mail steamer Tria in the North Sea and compelled the captain to throw over a valuable Russian mail.

TURKISH BATTLESHIP SUNK. Another large and important unit of the Turkish navy has been destroyed. A submarine, of which the nationality has not been announced, has sunk the battleship Hairreddin llarbarosse. Most of the crew were saved. About J SHU, Germany built four ships; in'liilo she sold two tg Turkey. The remaining two are now the oldest battieslaips in the German fleet but their si.-.ters, the Barbarosse and the Torgud Reis, were, until the Ooeben scuttled into the Dardanelles, Turkey's pride. Each of them carried eight 4-inch guns and six 11-inch guns. The big guns were in three turrets on the niidduu linelike the Queen Elizabeth's. Hut the superstructures were in the way of the centre turret guns, which had to be made shorter than the others. The old ships have all lost any real lighting value, but the loss to Turkey is hound to have a serious ell'ecl upon her nerves. Turkey has had a very painful experience with submarines. At the outset of the Allies' attacks on the Dardanelles, there were none in Turki-h wafers. Turkey has never owm/d any of these ingenious devices. Hut she had the Use, after a while, of German submarines, reported to number unyth'iig from one to nine. The battleships Majestic and Triumph were stink; and for this the Germans reported they decorated the command! r, though it wa-s stated at the time that tile honor was really awarded for the sinking of the Lusitania. Since then nothing lias been heard of German submarines doing anything in Turkish waters till a 'couple of Says, ago. wnen one was towed, damaged, into ths Golden Horn. One lias been reportod captured ui the Adriatic. But Turkey has been kept very much alive by British underwater craft. The battleships Mei'seudieh and Hairreddin Tsarbaros?e. have been sunk; several transports, some full of troops, have been torpedoed; the Golden Horn has been entered, and Constantinople itself has been staggered by the boom of ex ploded torpedoes. Even the Anatolian railways nave not been immune, and wiith sublime impudence the submarines have stofld off the shore and attacked with their small guns the Turkish land transports. Germany's submarines have not, hi their extended and busy sphere, done more execution than the British In the Turkish sew