Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1914-11-14
POWERFUL BRITISH
DREADNOUGHT SUNK,
STORY FROM PHOTO
Picture Shows Battleship
Audacious Half Sunk Off
Irish Coast--Hit by Mine.
Olympic Rescued Crew,
Says Report.
NEW YORK. Nov. Il.

NEW YORK, NOV. II.
The British dreadnousht Audacious, one
of the newest and most powerful ships in
the English navy, has been sunk off the
coast of Ireland presumably by pine,
If a photograph received today by the
International News Service is authentic
The picture shows the Audacious half
submerged.
The photograph also shows the port
deck of the dreadnought crowded with
| sailors, while about her were several
| small boats from the liner Olympic and
| two torpedoboats that had been called
to the scene to aid in the rescue work
| The picture of the stricken dreadnought
shows her listing to starboard. with the
water almost to her forward deck and her
| stern nigh in the air. The vessel APP
! parently had hole torn in her star
board side.
News of the disaster to the Audaclous
Is told in a story by mail from London.
1t says:
known that III. NJ. S. Audacious had been
In collision with mine. off the north
coast of Ireland. Later the news was
spread about that the survivors from the
dreadnought had been picked up by the
White Star liner Olympic. The Olympic
iiiNoiNhi't was AVppANNu 10 nave put III
at Lough SWilly on the northeast coast
of Ireland
Although application was repeatedly
: made to the censor for confirmation or
denial of these reports none was forth
coming. On the contrary, the censor pro-
hibited any mention being made of the
disaster.
THE first of the olymplc's passengers
arrived in London at o'clock this
morning November -. Announcement
had been made yesterday that the pas
sengers would arrive on a special train
today at Euston station. Newspaper
men learned that the passengers had ar
rived over various roads at the stations
at various hours.
Two of the passengers were located
at the Savoy Hotel One of them denied
that he had been on the Olympic and the
other refused to talk. 1t is believed the
British Government issued instructions
before the passengers were allowed TO
leave the Olympic at Belfast to keep
secret what they may know of the dis
aster.
Charles NJ schwab, the only pas
senger to be allowed to leave the Olympic |
at Lough-Swllly. admitted today that he
had obtained this permission only on the |
condition that he keep silent.
"one report of the affair is that the
Audaeious sighted and sank a Swedish
steamship laying mines off the north |
coast of ireland. The Audacious Is said
then to have wirelessed the Olympic OF
the danger, only moment later herself
emphasizing 1t by coming In contact with
one of the mines.
The explosion is said TO have caused
her boilers to burst. scaldlng li7 men,
three of them fatally. II Is said the
Olympic came up In time 10 tow the
Audaeious into small harbor on the
lrlsh coast where she sank in 2i-feet of
water. IL Is believed that the Govern
ment Is Withholding news OF the disaster
In the hope that before it is given out
Efforts now being made 10 raise the
iTeadnought Will have been successful :"
The dTeadnought Audaclous was COM
pleted and launched last year and was
one OF the most powerful warships In the
British navy. Her displacement was 25 OO0
ionsi she was 5es feet long ana 50 feet
n the heam. She carried a eomprement
of 500 men.
The Audaelous was heavily armored
and carried the following armament: Ten
l35-ineh (45 eallbrel guns. ranged In pairs
m turrets all ON the centre line; 1s 4-ineh
600 ealibrel guns In easemates In the
supeFstrueture. II forward and four after
and Ave 2l-ineh torpedo tubes. all sub
merged.
The ship had a speed OF 22h knots. She
vas sister OF the Ajax. Centurion and
King George Y. She was commanded By
captain Cecil +. Daimler. The other ON
,er OF it's complement ineluded Com
handler Launeelot n. Turton. Lieutenant
Commander Philip ". Douglas, LIeuten-
lnts Henry D. PFidham- Wippell, Francis I
y. Craven, Edward b. Arathoon and /
nhomas D. Galbraith. I
Dispatches last week said that Captain
Fox, who was the captain OF the Am
lhions the frst British war vessel lost
n the war, had been placed IN command
4 the Audaelous. The Amphlon strusk
. mine In the North Sea and several :
hundred Of her crew perishsd. Captain
FOX, therefore. owns the distinction OF I
laving been IN charge OF two vessels /
wrecked BY mines already with the {
sar yet youngl.