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was fitted with four 21-inch torpedo tubes. Her complement was 750.
 l The Queen Mary and the 1ndefatigable 1 were British battle cruisers of 2,0OO and i iS 75o tons displacement, respectively The | Queen Mary was 720 feet long, S7 feet beam and drew 30 feet of water. She was completed in 1913. She carried eight 13.5- l irch guns, IS four-nch guns and was | equipped with three 21-inch torpedo | tubes.
 1 The Indefatigable was, 57S feet long, 191z l feet beam, and 27s4 feet deep. This bat | tie cruiser was equipped with eight 12- l inch guns, 16 four-inch guns and had three | 21-inch torpedo tubes The Queen Mary and the Indefatigable carried compile ments of between 900 and $50. The Queen Mary cost about $10,000,O O00 while the h. defatigable cost nearly $S,0O0,0OO. The British dreadnaught Marlborough was one of the Iron Duke class. She was built at Davenport in 1914, displaced 25,000 tons, was 620 feet long, S91s feet beam and 2 feet deep. She carried 10 15.5-inch guns, F six-inch guns and a number of smaller arms. She also was equipped with four submerged torpedo tubes.
 WAS AN OLD SHIP
 The German battleship Pommern, which was sunk by British torpedo, displaced
 
 beam and 25 feet deep. The Pommern was built in 1907 at cost of about s6000,- GOO. She carried 729 officers and men. Her armament consisted of four 11-inch guns 14 6.7-inch guns, and a number of smaller calibre and six 17.7-inch torpedo tubes.
 The Fraulenlob was a small German cruiser displacing 2715 tons.
 The Invincible was laid down in 1917 She displaced 17,25O tons, was 562 feet long over all; 7S feet beam and 26 feet deep. Her normal complement was 731. She was armed with eight 12-inch guns, 16 four-inch guns and three torpedo tubes. The h. vincible took part in the naval engage ment off the Falkland Island in Decem- ber 1914 in which the German Pacific squadron, after defeating a British squad ron off the Chilean coast, was destroyed. The Defence was built in 1907; she dis placed 14,6OO tons, and ordinarily carried l55 men. Her length was 525 feet; her beam "A feet, and her maximum draughl 2S feet. She was armed with four 9.2-inch and 10 7.5-inch guns, IS 12-pounders and five torpedo tubes. Gs
 The Black Prince was built in 1904 dis placed 1850 tons and carried 7O4 men. She was 4SO feet long and 73 feet of beam. Her armament was six 9.2-inch and TO- 1 inch guns, 20 three-pounders and three | torpedo tubes.
 l The Warrior displaced 1860 tons and is 4SO feet long. Her complement is 704. She 1 carries six 9.2-inch and four 7.5-inch guns
 "A three-pounders and three torpedo l tubes.
 The German battle cruisers Derfflinger I ana LutzoW, one of which the British Officially announced tonight was blown I up, are vessels of the same class Each ship displaces 26,6OO tons, is 6S9 feet beam,
 With draught of 27h feet. The Derf- ringer was completed in July 1914, and the Lutzow year later. The ships car< | ried eight Pinch guns, 12 six-inch guns and F "A pounders They also were equipped with four torpedo tubes each | The Derfflinger once before was re- i ported by the British to have been sunk when she participated in an engagement
 in the North sea on January "A, 1915. A
 later report said that she had been badly | damaged in the fight and was dry docked 1 at Hamburg for repairs
 The German cruiser Wiesbaden, men,
 toned in the German official announce ment as having been sunk, is not. listed in the naval annuals