Romantic Story of Sinking of Goliath.
Hoc Oct 7), 9 10 am PHiiri Got 4 A romantic.story-is. circulated of Lhe siulviug of the Goliath, cabled uu Juue GtJ3. , -fourteen destroyers, divided into parallel lices, protected tJie battleship. The destroyers alternately steamed slowly up stream and then drifted back again. The wight was very dark. The look-out on the Goliath towards midnight; thought lie noticed eight destroyers in one° line instead of eeveu. 1 hen a torpedo struck the ship. Tt appears that a Turkish destroyer, manned by Germans, slipped into the British line of destroyers and awaited the moment to torpedo the Goliath at five hundred yards.
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Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6506, 6 October 1915, Page 5
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107Romantic Story of Sinking of Goliath. Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XLIV, Issue 6506, 6 October 1915, Page 5
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