BRITISH SUBMARINE IN SEA OF MARMORA.
SINKS A DESTROYER AND SUPPLY STEAMER. ISMID railway line damaged. WELLINGTON, December X. The High Commissioner has sent the following statement from London under date 6th inst.: — "A British submarine in the Sea of Marmora on Thursday fired on and damaged the Ismid railway. On Friday the submarine torpedoed and sank the Turkish destroyer Yar Hissar outside the Gulf of Ismid, picking up two ; officers and 40 men, who were placed on board a sailing vessel. On Saturday ; the submarine sank a supply steamer of 3,000 tons by gunfire, and destroyed ifour sailing vessels, also supply-carriers." i. Tho Yar Hissar, one of the most modern of the ten destroyers Turkey i tad at the outbreak of the war, was built at Bordeaux in 1907. She was of '.': 280 tons displacement, and had a speed of 28 knots. .She was armed..with .one P 13-Donn.dct» -six a-poundersj and two. torpedo .tubes, . - La _
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 292, 8 December 1915, Page 5
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