ELEVEN WARSHIPS AT NIEUPORT BOMBARDMENT.
THREE MONITORS PURCHASED FROM BRAZIL. GOOD MARKSMANSHIP CREATES HAVOC ASHORE. London, October 22. The bombardment of Nieuport on Wednesday took place under the fire of 11 warships, the German fire from the shore falling short. The Germans in Ostend are sheltering behind houses on the dykes. Among the British warships engaged were armoured monitors, purchased from Brazil at the outbreak of the war and built by Vickers, Son and Maxim, at Barrow-in-Furness, from British designs, for river work in Brazil. Their displacement is 1250 tons and their speed has been sacrified to draught. They only steam lIJ knots, but draw less than nine feet, while they carry six-inch guns. They left hurriedly on Saturday, with scouts and torpedo-boats, while firing commenced on Sunday. They returned on Monday, with seven men wounded by shrapnel. The monitors' marksmanship was excellent. They utterly destroyed the dyke between Ostend and Nieuport, which was strongly held. They also blew up a house occupied by the German headquarters staff.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 7
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168ELEVEN WARSHIPS AT NIEUPORT BOMBARDMENT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15748, 24 October 1914, Page 7
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