The Lancaster news. [volume] (Lancaster, S.C.) 1905-current, 1915-05-28
SUBMARINE SINKS
BRITISH WARSH|P
Battleship Triumph Goes Down
in the Dardanelles.
VERY FEW LIVES ARE LOST
vessel Was Operating i'm Support
of Forces on GallipoIi
Peninsula.

London, Nav 26.-The British bat
tleship Triumph has been sunk in
the Dardanelles. This official an
nouncement was made tonight.
The disaster to the Triumph is de-
scribed in brief statement by the
admiralty, which says that while op-
Grating in support of the Australian
and New Zealand forces on the shore
of the Gallipoli peninsula yesterday
the Triumph was torpedoed by
submarine and sank shortly after
wards.
Most of the officers and men. In
Guiding the captain and commander,
are reported to have been saved.
The submarine was chased by de-
Stroyers and patroliing small craft
until dark
The official announcements does
not say whether the submarine was a
Turkish or German, but it probably
was of the latter nationality, as the
British legation at Athens recently
ohered reward for the sinking of
German submarines supposed to be
in the Mediterranean.
The battleship Triumph was built
at Barrow in 1902 for Chile, but was
purchased by Great Britain in 1903.
She was laid down under the name
of Libertad.
Since the present war broke out
the Triumph has been in operation
in both far Eastern and European
waters. AS flagship of the British
Asiatic squadron she participated in
the bombardment of the German
base of TsingTau, China, last Octo-
ber, and was reported to have been
damaged by the shell fire of the Ger
man forts.
In the latter part of April the Tri-
Imph bombarded the Turkish
trenches on the western end of the
Gallipoli peninsula and afterwards
went into the Dardanelles to search
the trenches from a different angle.
Here she came under the fire of a
Turkish howitzer battery on the
Asiatic shore, which dropped sixteen
shells around her and threw three
was done by the shells, however, and
only two men were drowned. The
battleship silenced the Turkish bat
terry before retiring.
A few days later, while landing
operations were proceedings the Tri-
umph with other warships, in addi-
ito nto covering the landing, bonn
barded the forts in the Dardanelles
| to prevent reinforcements reaching
the Turks from the Sea of Marmora.
The Triumph was credited in the Off
cial reports with having set fire to
the town of Maidos during this bonn
bardment
The Triumph, which was COM
manded by Capt. Maurice E. Fitz-
maurice, was vessel of 1885 tons.
| Her crew of officers and men in
times of peace numbered about 700
men. The vessel carried four 10
inch, fourteen 7.5-inch and fourteen
14-pounders and four 6-pounders.
She also carried two 18-inch torpedo
tubes.
The Triumph was 436 feet long
| and had speed of about 20 knots.
With the sinking of the Triumph
five allied battleships have been ac-
counted for in the Dardanelles bv
| Turkish gun-tire, mines or torpedoes.
OF these losses the British have sus-
tained four-the Triumph, Ocean,
Irresistible and Goliath. One French
ship has been sunk-the Bouvet In
addition several other allied battle.
ships have at various times been
struck by Turkish shells and forced
to retire from the fighting in the
waterways