New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1914-10-17
Rule Compelling Each
Ship to Look Out for IT.
self Prevents Rescues.
TRAWLER SAVES SO;
81 TAKEN FROM RAFT
English Naval Losses Now Seven
-Enemy's List Is Longer QS),
but Less Important.

London, Oct. 16.-One more keel has
TO be added to the British naval losses
in the war, the cruiser Hawke having
been sunk by German submarine in
northern waters yesterday. As in the
case of the other ships which the Ger
mans have destroyed by means of sub
marines, only few cf her crew
escaped. Probably 327 men were lost.
OF the i'll fated vessels crew three
petty officers and forty-nine men are
reported to have been rescued by a
trawler, while one officer and twenty
men are said TO have escaped on raft.
The Hawke is believed TO have had on
board crew of 400 men.
The cruiser Theseus, which was also
attacked by the same submarine that
sank the Hawke, which was her sister
ship, obeyed the Spartan but neces-
sary instructions issued by the Ad-
miralty when so many lives were lost
through the Cressy and the Hogue GO
ing to the assistance of the Aboukir
when the latter was torpedoed, and
turned away from the perishing crew
of the Hawke. That the Theseus her
self was not sunk was due TO the bad
aim Of the enemy.
Admiralty's Report.
The Admiralty gave out the follow
ing announcement concerning the loss
Of the Hawke;
"His maiesty's ship Theseus. Cap
tain Hugh Edwards, was attacked by
a submarine in the northern waters OF
the North Sea yesterday afternoon,
but was missed. His msjesty's ship
Hawke. Captain ". P. +. T. Williams,
was attacked about the same time and
was sunk.
"The following officers, with forty
nine men Of the crew, have been
landed at Aberdeen from trawler:
Boatswain Sydney Austin, Gunner
James Dennis and Acting Gunner Har-
ry Evitt."
Later the Admiralty announced ad-
I ditional survivors, consisting Of Lieu
tenant Commander Rosoman and TWEEN
tv men, who were saved by raft.
Sydney Austin, mentioned in the Ad
miralty report, bears a charmed life
according to his way of thinking. He
was one of the few survivors of the
cruiser Hogue. After the sinking oi
that vessel he was transferred to the
Hawke. Thus within a few weeks he
has survived two submarine attacks.
The Hawke. like the Aboukir, Cressy
and Hogue. WAS a Chatham, so that
town is again in mourning.
This disaster follows by about three
weeks the sinking in the North Sea oi
the British cruisers Aboukir, HoguC
and Cressy. These vessels succumbeC
TO the attack of a German submarine
and with them some 60 British officer:
and 400 men went to their death.
British Naval Losses.
The complete list includes the cruis-
/ ors Amphion (sunk by mine August
/ g.. Pathfinder (torpedoed September
/ 1O), Aboukir, Cressy, Hogue, Pegasus
and Hawke and the torpedo gunboat
/ Speedy. Against this the British Ad-
miralty claims four German cruisers
two torpedo boat destroyers, one tor
pedoboat, three submarines and eight
armed commerce destroyers. Omitting
the armed merchantmen, the aggregate
warship tonnage loss to England IS, OF
course, much greater than that TO Ger
many.
The lost ships, with the exception OF
the cruiser Amphion and the subma-
Iines. were older craft used for scout
I ing purposes, the ships intended for
the sterner work Of q feet action being
held in safer waters for the day when
I Germany elects TO sally from behind
her naval base Of Heligoland.
According TO reports received here
/ from Berlin, Germany expects British
dreadnoughts to play part IN the de-
fence OF Ostend. Nothing else at the
nresent moment seems available "a
/ Keen the invaders out Of the Belgian
/ seaport. but. of course, events further
/ south will decide the ultimate action
With regard to Ostend.
The Hawke, which was laid down in
June. 1889, and launched on Marcsh IL,
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