ON THE SEA.

Taranaki Daily News, 2 August 1916, Page 5

ON THE SEA.

CAPTAIN' FRYATT'S MURDER Ca PROVISION FOR THE WIDOW. Ui.;;MANb START WRIGGLIN'tf. rji'ceived August 1, 7 Loudon, .July 31. The Government are givin<r Captain Frvatt's wilow £IOO a year, and tlic Groat Eastern Company are giving Reports from Amsterdam imlioato lit .it ill!- ' l us arc larined at the "muiir.'.ous neutral reprobation of fthe '. '■yait ciime. and have commenced to issue explanations ami justifications. DEUTSCHLAN'IVS DEPARTURE DELAYED. Received Augrst 1, 0.10 a.m. i New York, August 1. The TViitsc-li la lid's <lpp.irtr.rc lias been further postponed on the score that llritish freighters now Mock the outlet. TOTAL OF ENEMY VESSELS SEIZED. London, July 31. Lord "Robert Cecil annmm.-pd in the ''or.so of Commons lli.it the following "lieinv vessels had been seized in the Allies' ports: British ports 144. French '2. Rr-sian 30. Italian .")!). l'.ritain and Italy were employing all their seizures. The Portuguese had seized 71 steamers .ind three ve-scN. .-\ll would bo ; '.unloved as soon as they had fceea repaired. MAIL COAT MINED. London. Jp.lv 31. The Fins!!:!!,? mail beat Wilhidmina struck a mine and sank. The passengers and (Tew were rt:r.icd. Some were injured. GERMAN COX'VOY METHODS. Copenhagen, July 31. Tite Germans are employing new methods in ihe Baltic. Merchantmen are convoyed l.y aeroplanes and sail in long columns. tic last ship being a disguised auxiliary c'uiser. The Germans had ilis- | ■■< vered that, submarines always attacked : the iiindeniHNt ship, ;rud a few days ago -uch a rviiiser -ank a suiuuarine by gunfire. but a few minutes later another -nbmarine. which had ivitness-ed the disaster, attacked and sank the cruiser, .vhose crew were rescued. AIR FIGHT OYEi: NORTH SEA. Paris, .July :;n. Fii:-liiiig fishermen report that many aeroplanes fought' a battle over the North Sea. FATE OF IRUN FOR GERMANY. Copenhagen. July 30. A sulrnirine, apparently English, torpedoed the Nordeny as reported ou ( he 27th. A German torpedo boat atj lacked the submarine, which lodged j ihells in it and escaped. I ('.;»■ -'.ladeny was carrying iron ore j .'rum Norway to German).) JUT!.AND DATTLE HONORS. London. July 30. The naval promotions in connection with tiie Jutland Battle are unpreee. !ontly large and include 2(i commanders promoted to captains and ii(i lieu-tenant-commanders to commanders. LOSS OF THE -QUEEN MARY. UiDSIIIPMANPS STORY. The best story from the ill-fated Queen Mavy is that told by an afterturret midshipman who was saved from her. lie bays: ''After we had been fighting for about twenty minutes a salvo of German shells hit the quarter-deck, setting the whole of that part on fire. A few minutes afterwards a terrific explosion occurred in the -eoond magazine. Both our guns were then right back on their slides and out of action. The general opinion was that the whole turret had been unseated by the German salvo. The officer in the turret told me. that the ship was sinking rapidly, and that I was to get the turret crew out as quickly as possible, which I did. The officer then told me to carry out the usual routine: Every man for himself." I left the turret through the hatch in the top, and found the ship was lying on her side. She was broken amidship, with the stern and bows both sticking out of the water at an acute angle. I sat on the turret for a few moments, and while there I thought I saw several men fall into the wafer. The stern was on fire and red-hot. Then an explosion blew the whole bow right out of the water, causing the aft part of the ship to give a tremendous lurch and throwing me off the turret into the water. '•Just before I struck the water I heard another terrific explosion above my head, so apparently the aft magazine exploded. When I came to the surface of the water nothing of the Queen Mary was to be seen except a lot of wreckage, spars and that sort of thing. 'The Tiger was steaming behind us during the action, and probably passed right over the spot where the Queen .Mary had gone down. The Queen Mary took only about a minute to sink. I remained in the water a long time, clinging to a spar, and saw a destroyer come up and saw her turn round and make off again. A few minutes afterwards the Fifth Battle Squadron steamed past, at about 25 knots, and firing continually."