AMERICAN CRUISER LOST
NO LOSS OF LIF]? REPORTED. (AUSTRALIAN-NEW ZEALAND CABLE ASSOSIATOH.) (Received July 20, 1 p.m.) WASHINGTON, 19th July. The" Navy Department announces that the cruiser San Diego was sunk off the coast. It is believed that there was no loee of life. \ The cause of the sinking is unknown, but it is suggested that the cruiser was the victim of a submarine. [This is America's first warship loss in the war. The San Diego was a big armoured cruiser of 13,680 tons, completed in 1907, and originally named California. She had a speed of 22 knots, and was armed with four 8-inch, fourteen 6-inchj eighteen 3-inch, and twenty smaller guns, as well as machine-guns. Her officers and crew numbered 829.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCVI, Issue 18, 20 July 1918, Page 8
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