LOSS OF A BRITISH PRE-DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16123, 11 January 1916, Page 7

LOSS OF A BRITISH PRE-DREADNOUGHT BATTLESHIP.

KING EDWARD VII. SUNK BY A MINE. RESCUE OF ALL THE OFFICERS AND CREW. T . ~ . , London, January 9. struck a t/u ann ° UnCeS that th 6 battlesh * Kin Ed ™d VII. ankh T 6 T *° b6 aband ° ned °™S to the heavy sea. She «ortly afterwards. Two men were injured. There was no loss resold D rr aPerS W a tribute i 0 the -°«derful discipline and save th the , Cre T° f the Kin * Ed —d VII., which enabled them cuCd Peril *'' COmPaDy UndCr dre — ta « ° great diffi-

1L ? d & battleship carrying 12in al KV,...., «■ V• du " nD of «>Jtt. She was protected bv a main belt 6 t beTforTlT V hiCk ' ?iffc Wid6 { ° r abUfc 285f ' an.dshipT ith a an belt forward Her armament consisted of four 12in guns, four 92 n guns topedo\Tel' V l lVe 12nde " Q f ° Urteen 3-pouadcrs, Z Maxims, and" fivo torpedo tubes Her speed was 19 knots, and she carried a complement of 825 men. _ Her water ships are the Commonwealth, Dominion, Hindustan, Zealandia Mibernia, Africa, and Britannia. Each vessel of this class cost about £1,500 000 to build. ' ""«"""

NAVAL BALANCE-SHEET OF THE WAR. ENEMY LOSES OVER SEVENTY-FIVE SHIPS. The naval losses of Great Britain and her allies, and Germanv and her allies, since the outbreak of the war, may be stated thus :— GREAT BRITAIN AND ALLIES. . GERMANY AND ALLIES. Battleships— Battleships— British: Bulwark, accidentally German: Pommern, torpedoed: blown up; Formidable, sunk by T D ] re f n0 «g ht Markgraf, mined. . . .. . lurkish: Mesudiveh, torpedoedsubmarine; Irresistible, Ocean, Hairpin p,' i Peao-,j, ' naireain lsarbarossa, torGoliath, Triumph, and Majestic, pedoed. Total ... ... 4 lost in Dardanelles; King Edward VII., mined. CruisersFrench: Bouvet, lost in Darda- German: Magdeburg. Kcln. nellcs: Total g Mainz, Ariadne, gunfire; Hela. torpedoed ; Torek, mined ; CorCreisees— moran, at Tsing-tau; Geier, r-,;. . ~ , „ interned; Emden, gunfire; British: Amphion, mined; Path- cniiser> mined . finder, torpedoed; Pegasus, gun- horst, Gneisenau. Nnrnberg; fire; Aboukir, Creasy, Hogue, I-eipsic, Koenigsberg, Bluch^r. Hawke, Hermes, torpedoed gunfire Gazelle, torpedoed Good Hope, gunfire; Mon- Kolberg, sunk \orth Sea; mouth, gunfire; Argyle, Dresden, gunfire; Karlsruhe. stranded; Natal, internal ex- lost; Moltke and other cruiplosion. sers sunk m Gulf of Riga; French: Leon Gambetta, tor- Prinz Adalbert, sunk in Bal- , . tic ; Undine, sunk in Baltic: " Frauenlob, torpedoed; cruiser Russian: Pa'Jada, torpedoed: sunk by gunfire. Jemtchag, torpedoed. Austrian: Zenta, gunfire, KaiJapatese: Takachiho, mined: serin Elizabeth, at Tsing-tau. Asama, wrecked. Turkish: Mejidieh, in Black Italian: Guiseppe Garibaldi, tor- Sea " Total - 31 pedoed; Amain, torpedoed. Total 19 Armed Liners and AnciUAßlEs— Armed Liners and Auxiliaries- G ™ = *? *&" aise ' b°°tire; llhelm der Grosse, gunBritish Oceanic, wrecked; Ro- fire : Spreewald. captured; Cap hilla, mined; Viknor, wrecked: Trafalgar, gunfire; Bethania, Clan McNaughton lost' captured; Itolo, Rhios, gunfire; Bayano. mined; Princess Irene! Soden, M " k ° mi ' <***». Bayano, mined; Princess Irene, n i i- . J, , ra * aa ' „. . ~ ene< Ophelia, captured; Ruhin. at minelayer, blown up in Sheer- t.: n » *-~ x- ~ K oneer Tsmg-tan; Navarra, gunfireness Harbour; Ramsey, gun- Berlin, Karnak, Locksun, Holfire; India, torpedoed; Tara, £ er > Kronprinz Wilhelm, Prinz torpedoed. Total 9 Eitel Friedrich, interned; minelayer Albatross, driven ashore Destroyers— in Baltic; Meteor, blown up. British: Maori, torpedoed; Re- 21 cruit, gunfire; torpedo boats 10 Destroyers— l and 12 torpedoed; Lynx, German: Seven bv gunfire- one mined; Louis, stranded. torpedoed; four others 'lost; Italian: One torpedoed. seven sunk by Russians in Japanese: Shirotaye, wrecked. Gulf of K '^ a - French : Mousquet, gunfire. Turkish : The Turks have also lost Russian: Torpedo boat and two a number °* destroyers in the gunboats. Total 22 Black Sea: Total, over ... 19 T*i v r , , Total number of battleship. Total number of battleships, cruiserß> armed j£££& cruisers, armed liners, auxi- , iaries and d £a£ Lanes, and destroyers lost 49 Over ... ~ id The above lists do not include submarines, complete data not being available Only ascertained losses are included. A number of other To J have be n reported, but the reports lack confirmation. lOiSeS been