The war in January 1918 . er of Imbros,and engaged them, the Breslau continuing to engage the Lizard, which was prevented fromclosing to torpedo range by the accuracy of theGerman vessels fire at shorter range. destroyer Tigress now joined theLizard, and the two destroyers endeavoured tocover the monitors by forming a smoke screen,in attempting whicii they were subjected to anaccurate fire from the Goeben. Raglan had been heavily hit and sank,and the small monitor M 28, which was on fireamidships, blew up, and finally disappearedabout 6 The Goeben then ceased fire, an
The war in January 1918 . er of Imbros,and engaged them, the Breslau continuing to engage the Lizard, which was prevented fromclosing to torpedo range by the accuracy of theGerman vessels fire at shorter range. destroyer Tigress now joined theLizard, and the two destroyers endeavoured tocover the monitors by forming a smoke screen,in attempting whicii they were subjected to anaccurate fire from the Goeben. Raglan had been heavily hit and sank,and the small monitor M 28, which was on fireamidships, blew up, and finally disappearedabout 6 The Goeben then ceased fire, andaltered course to the southward. The Tigress and the Lizard, observing thattrawlers were coming to the assistance of themonitors, followed the German vessels. At 7 , when the Breslau was about sixmiles south of Kephalo, a large explosion wasobserved abreast her after funnel. Two orthree minutes later three more explosions tookplace, and at 10 minutes past 7 she sank by thestern, heeling over as she went down. On see-. 0 3. N^ o m- WO. (A «o ^ rN- 2 4i -« JC E « 0 ^^ • —o CO :s- uj-^: o- in- tn- O- o.
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