H.M.S. HAWKE SUNK

Evening Post, Volume LXXXVIII, Issue 94, 17 October 1914, Page 7

H.M.S. HAWKE SUNK

BY A GERMAN SUBMARINE (Received October 17, 8.50 a.m.) LONDON, 16th October. A German submarine sank H.M.S. Hawke in the North Sea. Fifty-two survivors have landed at Aberdeen. The submarine failed to hit H.M.S. Theseus. OFFICIAL NEWS. ' The following cablegram has been received by the Premier: — LONDON, 16th October. •The Secretary of the Admiralty announces that the warship Theseus (7350 tons, built in 1894) was attacked by a submarine in the northern waters of the North Sea yesterday evening, but was missed. The warship Hawke (7350 tons, built in 1893) was attacked at the same time and sunk. Four officers and forty-nine menwei'e landed at Aberdeen by a trawler. The remaining officers and men are missing. [The Hawke was one of the Edgar class of si* ships, the oldest first-class cruisers in the British Navy. She was built in 1891, and being twenty-three years old, was on the verge of going off the active list. Tho whole class was a training squadron according to the official Navy List for August. The Theseus was one of the group. These vessels are of 7350 tons, and of about nineteen knots speed. They carry two 9.2-inch guns, ten 6-inch. t* r elve 6-pounder, and five 3-pounder guns, and have a heavy protective deck of armour from three to five inches thick. According to the August List, the Hawke's officers were Commander B. A. Pratt-Barlow. Lieutenant-Commander R. R. Rosoman, Lieutenant F. W. Clarkson, Lieutenant A. E. G. Coombs, Eng.-Lieut.-Com-mander T. M. David ; surgeon, Gustavus 'W. M. Custsnce. The Hawke acquired some notoriety in 1911 by failing foul of the great liner Olympic as the latter was moving out of port. The Olympic was scarcely damaged, but the Hawke's bows were badly smashed. When she was repaired her ram was not replaced, and she was fitted with a vertical stem.] BELLIGERENTS' NAVAL LOSSES The following losses of warships have been sustained by Britain and Germany : — BRITAIN. 6th August — Scout-cruiser Amphion, 3440 tons, ten 4-inch guns ; sunk by mine ne.ir the Thames; 120 lives lost. 3rd September— Torpedo-gunboat Speedy, 810 tons, two 4.7-inch guns; blown up by a mine off the east coast of England. sth September— Protected scout Pathfinder, 2940 tons, nine 4-inch guns ; sunk by German submarine off English east coast. Heavy loss of life. 9th September — Merchant-cruiser Oceanic (White Star liner), 17,274 tons ; wrecked on the north coast of Scotland. 19th September — Australian submarine AEI, lost with all hands. 20th September — Third-class cruiser Pegasus, 2135 tons, eight 4-inch guuss ; disabled at Zanzibar by German cruiser Koenigsberg. 22nd September — Armoured cruisers Cre'ssy, Aboukir, and Hogue, each 12,000 tons, two 9.2-inch, twelve 6-inch, twelve smaller guns ; sunk in the North Sea by German submarines. 17th October— 'Cruiser 'Hawke, 7350 tons, two 9.2-inch, ten 6 : inch, seventeen smaller guns ; sunk in North Sea by German submarines. GERMANY. sth August— -Mine-layer Konigin Luise, 1800 tons ; sunk off the Thames by destroyer Lance. Bth August (about)— Submarine Uls, 800 tons (?), sunk by cruiser Birmingham. 20th August (about)— Merchant-cruiser Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 14..349 tons; sunk by cruiser Highflyer, south of Canary Islands. 27th August— Cruiser Magdeburg, 4500 tons, twelve 4.1-inch guns; wrecked on Odensholm Island, Gulf of Finland, under fire of Russian ships. 28 August— Battle of Heligoland Bight. Cruisers Ariadne, 2618 tons, ten 4.1-inch guns ; Koln, 4280 tons, twelve 4.1-inch guns, and Mainz, 4232 tons, twelve 4.1-inch guns, and two torpedo craft sunk; others damaged. sth September— Submarine which sank H.M.S. Pathfinder reported sunk. 14th September— Merchant-cruiser Cap Tfalgar, 1710 tons; sunk by British auxiliary cruiser Carmania, off South American coast. 15th September— Cruiser Hela, 2040 tons ; ten small guns ; sunk by British submarine. 22nd September— Two submarines which sank Cressy, Aboukir, and Hogue sunk in North Sea. Ist October — Destroyer sunk at Tsingtao by forts. 4th October— Destroyer 5126, 420 tons, sunk in the river Ems by British submarines. 7th October— Cruiser Cormoran, 1630 tons, eight 4.1-inch guns, and two guhboats reported sunk at Kiao-chau. Unconfirmed. 10th October — Two submarines reported sunk in the Baltic Sea by Russian cruisers. Unconfirmed. _ 15th October.— Submarine reported sunk by British destroyer. Unconfirmed.