Submarine and anti-submarine . d a cook-boy. Out of a total complementof more than 700, only 201 were saved in all. Amongthe lost were thirty-four officers, including eight mid-shipmen and a sub-lieutenant. On March 11, the Bayano, an armed merchant-cruiser,was torpedoed off the Firth of Clyde, and went downwith 170 of her 200 men. On April 11, the Wayfarertransport was torpedoed, and ran ashore off Queens-town. On May 1, the Recruit, a small torpedo-boatof 385 tons, was sunk in the North Sea, with thirty-nine out of her sixty-four officers and men. Then came two grave losses on two consecutiv
Submarine and anti-submarine . d a cook-boy. Out of a total complementof more than 700, only 201 were saved in all. Amongthe lost were thirty-four officers, including eight mid-shipmen and a sub-lieutenant. On March 11, the Bayano, an armed merchant-cruiser,was torpedoed off the Firth of Clyde, and went downwith 170 of her 200 men. On April 11, the Wayfarertransport was torpedoed, and ran ashore off Queens-town. On May 1, the Recruit, a small torpedo-boatof 385 tons, was sunk in the North Sea, with thirty-nine out of her sixty-four officers and men. Then came two grave losses on two consecutivedays. The British Fleet off Gallipoli had already lostthe Irresistible and Ocean by floating mines ; and nowthe U-boats succeeded in inflicting another double losson us, at a moment when the Army needed the strongestsupport to ensure success. On May 26, a single torpedosank the Triumph, while she was co-operating with theAustralian and New Zealand troops before Ari was accompanied by an escort of two destroyers, and. • Were brought in by the 50-ton smack, Provident, of Brixhai SUBMARINE v. WAR-SHIP 85 was about to open fire when the submarine got a shotinto her. She listed till her deck touched the water,and in five minutes capsized completely, but remainedfloating for twenty minutes, keel upwards. Some 460of the officers and men were saved. The Triumph was not designed for our Navy, buttaken over from the builders yard, and the curiousarch formed by her derricks made her outline a con-spicuously foreign feature in our Fleet. The Majestic,on the other hand, which quickly followed her todestruction, was a typically British vessel, and gaveher name to the whole class, built in 1895 and thefollowing years, and then greatly admired. She also,on May 27, was supporting the army in action on theGallipoli peninsula, when a German torpedo ended hertwenty years career. She carried about 760 officersand men, but nearly all of them were saved. In June,two torpedo-boats, the Gr
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