. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. eptember, 1914—the Pathfinder, the Aboukir,the Cressy and the Hogue. The last three weresunk on the same day within sight of each other,in consequence of two of the ships going to rescuethe sailors of the first that was struck. While en-gaged in this act of common humanity, the rescu-ing ships were given death blows in quick succes-sion. The British cruiser Hawke was sunk in October,1914, the battleship. Audacious, Oct. 27, and thebattleship Formidable, Jan. 1, 1915. First Naval Battles of War. British submarines had little chance
. A story of the war and family war service record, 1914-1919. eptember, 1914—the Pathfinder, the Aboukir,the Cressy and the Hogue. The last three weresunk on the same day within sight of each other,in consequence of two of the ships going to rescuethe sailors of the first that was struck. While en-gaged in this act of common humanity, the rescu-ing ships were given death blows in quick succes-sion. The British cruiser Hawke was sunk in October,1914, the battleship. Audacious, Oct. 27, and thebattleship Formidable, Jan. 1, 1915. First Naval Battles of War. British submarines had little chance to attackan enemy that kept close to its own harbors, butsucceeded in torpedoing the German battleshipPommern in the Baltic sea July 2, 1915, and theTurkish battleship Massudieh later in the Darda-nelles, Turkish waters. Meantime the British navy was destroying rap-idly all of the German navy that was not safelj^stowed in German ports when the war was the first general naval engagement of the war, a /^ s^n sTfr- -^. TOlSJiVTOSWfwB^^ #!l/J ^\\ ~B?^.
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