BRITISH NAVAL LOSS
H.M.S. NATAL SUNK. BY "AN" INTERNAL EXPLOSION. LONDON, Dec. 31. . The -Admiralty announces that the cruiser Natal was sunk yesterday in • harbour as the result of an : internal ex- ; plosion.—-There were 400 survivors. ABOUT THREE HUNDRED LOST. CAPTAIN AND COMMANDER _ MISSING. ". " ' , " LONDON, Jan. 1. The Admiralty- has issued a list of \ - V'those ssfved from the.Natal. It includes " 14 officers, but does not include the • captain or. commander. . ..* . i The newspapers opine that about 300 - .were lost. . (The : Natal was -an armoured cruiser ; of 13,550' tons displacement and a speed • of •• 23 knots. - She was launched, in '••1905>.-and completed in 1907.)
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 3 January 1916, Page 6
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103BRITISH NAVAL LOSS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XLIX, Issue XLIX, 3 January 1916, Page 6
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