ENEMY LOSSES AT JUTLAND

New Zealand Herald, Volume LVI, Issue 17094, 25 February 1919, Page 5

ENEMY LOSSES AT JUTLAND

OFFICIAL BRITISH RECORD

mAM Y VESSELS DAMAGED. j !" effective GUNNERY WORK. (Eccoivcd 7.30 p.m.) LONDON, Feb. 23. gjuttr. - £ detailed account of the Battle of Tutland, compiled from British offi"al records, finally disposes of the Lilian assertions regarding the mcber of German ships which es- " e d British gunfire. It states that m battleships, five battle-cruisers d 10 light cruisers were hit while i e battleship Ostfriesland was ned. Five destroyers are known J have been sunk. The battlemiser Lutzow sustained direct hits, an d was torpedoed twice, being finally abandoned and sunk by two German torpedoes. The casualties ofl the Lutzow totalled from 400 to 6^ e account vividly described He terrible battering of the battleship and the battlecruiser Seydlitz. The former vas struck fifteen times and foiir forward compartments were hooded as the result of direct hits. The ship settled by the head and listed to port, and the starboard compartments had to be flooded to fight her. The members of the crew on the forward torpedo tube were imprisoned, and only extricated on June 6, when the Koenig was dry docked at Hamburg. The men were /kept alive by feeding them through a voice pipe. $ The Seydlitz was hit by 23 shells (and one torpedo, and beached in a sinkiug condition. She was subsequently refloated and docked. Of 2-2 German battleships engaged, only 10, including the-'fiagship, escaped damage. A few were soon repaired. The others were laid up {or months.

A complete record of the forces engaged is as follows: — British: 24 Dreadnoughts, 10 attached cruisers, eight battle-cruisers, 12 light cruisers, eight, vessels of the first and second cruiser squadrons, six vessels of the light cruiser squadron, 73 destroyers. German: 22 battleships, 16 cruisers, 77 destroyers. It is clearly established thai of the vessels actually in action, the preponderance of force lay with the enemy.