GERMAN SUBMARINE LOSSES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXVI, Issue 1334, 8 December 1914, Page 4

GERMAN SUBMARINE LOSSES.

Altogether nine German submarines- have been reported as having been destroyed since the beginning of the war. They are the one that sunk the Pathfinder ; one sunk by the Birmingham; one sunk off the Scottish coast; two sunk in the attack on the Russian cruisers Pallada and Bayan, in the Baltic; one blown up while lying on the bottom near the Strait of Dover ; one sunk by gunfire near Nieuport; one rammed by a French destroyer, also near the Strait of Dover ; and Uxß, rammed by a patrol boat off the Scottish coast. In some instances there has been no official confirmation of these, reports, nor will there be unless Germany makes her losses known. As against these the British Navy has lost only the E 3, the D 5, and the Australian vessel AEr. The UlB was a sister vessel to the Uls, which was sunk by the cruiser Birmingham, and the U 9, which claims credit for sinking the cruisers Aboukir, Hogue, and Cressey, and was later heard of as fouling the nets of a Dutch fishing vessel. There are 12 submarines in this class—U9 to U2O. They are of about 400 tons displacement, with a surface speed of 15 knots, and arp armed with three or four torpedo tubes. The crew consists of 17 officers and men.