FRENCH BATTLESHIP LOST IN THE MEDITERRANEAN.
SINKS HALM-HOUR AFTER BEING TORPEDOED. ALL THE CREW SAVED EXCEPT 296 MEN. Australian and N.Z. CaWo. (Received 7 d.m.) '- PARTS. March 24. ■. It is officially - announced that the French battleship Danton was sunk in the Mediterranean last Monday. '. The Danton was struck by two torpedoes and sank in half an hour. ~ : Those saved numbered 805,.and 296 men were drowned. "'■' The Danton was of.the type known as semi-Dreadnought. She was of ,18,400 tons displacement, and was completed in. 1911. She carried four 12in • ./guns, twelve 9in, sixteen 12-pounders, and ten 3-ponnders; also two torpedo tubes. Her speed was 19.4 knots. '"'.■ .-' ';". . ~
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIV, Issue 16498, 26 March 1917, Page 5
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