THE ENEMY'S CASUALTIES
NONE OF THE SCHARNHORSTS CREW SAVED. AMSTERDAM, 14th January. Berlin telegrams state that none of the Schamhorst's crew were saved ; seven officers and 171 from the Gneisenau, no officers and seven men from the Nurnberg, and four officers and fifteen men from the Leipsiz were rescued. The convoy vessels'* crews were all 1 saved. [Tho complements of the sunken vessels were as follow : — Schamhorst, 764 ; Gneisenau, 764; Leipzig, 303. The total loss of life was therefore 1627 officers and men out of 1831. The British losses in the Good Hope and Monmouth numbered about 1440.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 12, 15 January 1915, Page 7
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