H.M.S. TRIUMPH SUNK

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 125, 28 May 1915, Page 7

H.M.S. TRIUMPH SUNK

SUBMARINE IN THE GULF OF SAROS VESSEL SINKS RAPIDLY LONDON, 27th May. It is officially stated that a submarine sank the battleship Triumph at Gallipoli. The captain and most of the officers and crew were saved. The Triumph was operating in support of the Australasians. Destroyers chased the submarine until dark. A report received at Amsterdam from the Turkish headquarters states that the Triumph was torpedoed and sank in the Gulf of Saros, off Ariburnu. (Received May 28, 8.10 a.m.) LONDON, 27th May. A Constantinople telegram states that the Triumph was torpedoed at noon on the 25th. There was a terrible explosion. The vessel turned on her side within a minute. Seven minutes later she turned and floated awhile keel upwards, and then sank rapidly. [The Triumph and her sister ship the Swiftsure were completed in 1904, and were built for the Chilian Government, but were bought by the British Government before they were finished. The Triumph was a battleship of 11,980 tons, and about twenty knots speed, armoured with 7in of steel in the main belt, and lOin steel on the chief gun positions. The armament consisted of four loin, fourteen 7.5 in, and fourteen 14-pounder guns, and two torpedo tubes. For ships of the size, this is a very formidable equipment, but the 7.5 in guns lost most of their value in a seaway owing to their low position. The ship was, at the outbreak of war, attached to the China Squadron. She carried about 700 officers and men, and cost £845,000.]