Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-16

HAWKE TOTALLY DESTROYED
BY UNDER. WATER CRAFT
Only Fifty Out Of Grew Of 400 Men
saved-Sixth Successful Raid by
Submarine Craft Against British
Ships-sritish Admiralty Office Con-
firms Disaster to North Sea Fleet.

LollQOI, oCt. " l. ne bTIliSu STuiSSi
Hawke has been sunk in the North sea
by a German submarine. Out of a
crew of 400 men, fifty were saved.
The statement that the British
cruiser Hawke had been torpedoed and
sunk has been officially confirmed
The British cruiser Hawke was of
1850 IONS displacement She was $50
feet long, of 81 foot beahm. and drew
23 feet of water. She was sister ship
of the Edgar. Endymion. Grafton.
Theseus and Gibralter. and was
launched in 1891.
Carried Crew Of 400.
Her armament consisted of nine %
inch guns, ten 6-inch guns, twelve six
Founders, five three Founders, two
machine guns and two torpedo tubes
Her complement is given as 544 men,
but she may well have had fewer on
board when she went down.
The Hawke was commanded, accord
ing to tha British admiralty list OF
September. 1914, by capt. Hugo p. VIII
liails. and among her officers We're
Commander Bernard a. Pratt Barlow
and Lieutenant Commander Robert X.
RoSoman.
Sixth Similar Disaster.
This disaster to the Hawke follows
by about three weeks the sinking in the
North sea of the British cruisers
Abukr Houke and Cressy. These
vessels succumped to the attack of a
German submarine, and with them
some 500 British officers and 400 men
went to their death.
While the Hawke was laid down in
June of 1883. she was launched at
Chatham on March Ii, 1891. Among
her officers at the time of the disaster
were eight naval cadets.
Other British warships lost in the
war were the cruiser Amphlon, which
was sunk in the North sea by a mine.
Aug. g. and the cruiser Pathfinder, tor
pedoed in the North sea. Sept. 10. The
loss of the Hawke makes a total of six
British cruisers destroyed by German!
in the North sea.
All Chief Officers Lost
The admiralty has given out the fol!
lowing announcement concerning the
loss of the cruiser Hawke:
III. NJ. S, Theseus. Captain Hugh
Edwards. was attacked by q submarine
in the northern waters of the North
Sea yesterday afternoon. bat was
missed. III. NJ. S. Hawke, Capt. II. p.
r. Williams. was attacked about the
same time and was sunk.
The following officers with forty
nine men of the crew. have been land
ed at Aberdeen from trawler Boats
vain sydney Austin. Gunner James
Dennis and Acting Gunner Henry Ev-
lit. The remaining officers and men
are missing. Further particulars will
be published as soon as available.
The Hawke was cruiser built in
1899"
The Hawke is the British cruiser
which collided with the White Star
liner Olympic. Sept. 20. 1911. near Os-
borne Bay, on the north side of the
Isle of Wight. She received serious
damage.
Sister Ship Narrowly Escapes.
1t WAS only bad aim on the part of
Hawkes. sister ship. the Theseus, for
that vessel too. was attacked but she
escaped
The cruisers Amphion Pathfinder.
Aboukir. Cressy. Hogue Pegasus and
hawke ana Iile ltl pttto ShIpcstl
SPEEDY make up the British formidable
list of losses in warships in the first
ten weeks of the var Against this
the British admiralty claim four Ger
man cruisers. two torpedo boat de-
stroyers. one torpedo boat. three sub
marines and eight armed commerce
destroyers. Omitting the last named
the aggregate tonnage loss to Eng
land is much greater than to Germany.
Await German Fleet.
With the exception Of the cruiser
Anphion and the submarines. the 9th
er lost craft We're Of the older type.
the ships of the stcrner sort being held
iii safer waters for the DAY when Ger
many sails from her naval base of Hell
goland.
According to reports received here
from Berlin. Germany expects British
dreadnaughts to play part I'm the de-
fence of Ostend. Nothing at the pres
ent moment seems available 10 keep
the Germans out of the seaport, but OF
course events further south Will decide
the ultimate action at Ostend