New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915: April-September, 1915Various
History
New York Times Current History; The European War, Vol 2, No. 4, July, 1915: April-September, 1915
Various
World War, 1914-1918
June 6--Italian warships are destroying cables and lighthouses on the
Adriatic; Italian warships bombard the railway between Cattaro and
Ragusa, and shell Monfalcone.
June 11--Turkish cruiser Midullu sinks a Russian torpedo boat
destroyer in the Black Sea.
June 14--British steamship Arndale sinks from striking a mine in the
White Sea.
June 15--Official announcement states that the total loss from all
causes in the British Navy up to May 31 was 13,547 officers and men.
NAVAL RECORD--SUBMARINES.
May 1--The Gulflight, an American oil steamer owned by the Gulf
Refining Company, is torpedoed off the Scilly Islands, but does not
sink, and is towed to an anchorage in Crow Sound, Scilly Islands; the
Captain dies of heart failure, and two men jump overboard and are
drowned; she was flying the American flag; French steamer Europe is
torpedoed by a German submarine, crew being rescued; British steamer
Fulgent is torpedoed by a German submarine; some of the crew are
missing; British steamer Edale is sunk by a German submarine off the
Scilly Islands, crew being saved; Russian steamer Svorono is sunk by a
German submarine off the Blasket Islands, crew being saved; British
trawler Colombia is sunk by a German submarine, seventeen of the crew
being lost.
May 3--In the last forty-eight hours one Swedish steamer and three
Norwegian steamers have been sunk by German submarines; British
steamer Minterne is sunk by a German submarine off the Scilly Islands,
two of crew being killed.
May 4--Ten British trawlers have been sunk by German submarines in the
last forty-eight hours; the submarine which caused the most damage has
an iron cross painted on her conning tower.
May 5--Danish steamer Cathay is sunk by a German submarine in the
North Sea; passengers and crew saved.
May 6--British steamers Candidate and Centurion are sunk off the Irish
coast by German submarines, crews being saved; British schooner Earl
of Latham is sunk by a German submarine; two British trawlers are sunk
by German submarines.
May 8--British steamer Queen Wilhelmina is sunk by a German submarine
in the North Sea, crew being given time to take to the boats.
May 12--British submarine E-14 has penetrated to the Sea of Marmora
and has sunk two Turkish gunboats and five Turkish transports.
May 15--German submarine sinks without warning the Danish steamer
Martha in Aberdeen Bay, Scotland; crew escapes.
May 19--German submarines sink British steamers Drumcree and Dumfries
and British trawler Lucerne; no lives lost.
May 20--French steam trawler is blown to pieces by German submarine
near Dartmouth; thirteen of crew killed; British trawlers Chrysolite
and Crimond are sunk by German submarines; crews saved.
May 21--German submarine, with thirty-nine shots from her gun, sinks
British sailing ship Glenholm off Irish coast; crew saved.
May 22--German submarine sinks Norwegian steamer Minerva; crew saved.
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