Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1915-06-27 | Page 5 | Tonnage of War Vessels Lost 460,000

TONNAGE OF V VAR AR VESSELS LOST Liverpool Paper Gives Summary Summary Sum Sum- mary of Damage Done on High Seas in War OJ TORPEDO'S SCORE HEAVY British Losses by This Weapon Approximately y Ten Times Those of Enemy t Juno June 26 After After ten L LIVERPOOL Ln months of war the tile losses suffered It by the cout contending navies les present some sonic Interesting points r rr h.- speculation r says sas the tho J Journal of ot Commerce affording a comparison of or the relative merits of ot the various arlous offensive weapons in the naval na struggle le and showing how ho costly casU It Is Isto Isto isto to the countries concerned t to Indulge in hi minor encounters the losses under tinder types ipes of vessels Great Britain and he hey hJ allies have been deprived of the tue services oCI of oC eight I ht t battleships fourteen cruisers four tour gunboats six destroyers ten submarines sub stub SUb SUb-I marines fourteen boats and six armed merchantmen and auxiliaries Tho The losses of oC Germany and her allies I consist of Cf one OlId battleship twenty-three twenty cruls cruisers rs fifteen en gunboats thirteen toledo torpedo tor tol I Jodo edo craft six submarines and twenty armed merchantmen and find auxiliaries Torpedo In Is Deadly Separating the 10 losses Aes under the various various va va- va- va rious noun causes neglecting auxiliaries and armed merchantmen the torpedo has hasl l t 1 Tvr r. 1 1 r nr id f vessels p the mine 5 t tons iu gunfire n 7 0 t tons tolls and tons tolis have been lost In Ina various va a ia arlous rious ether wa ways s The German Austrian and Turkish fleets have been deprived of tons tona of or war ivar vessels b by means of the torpedo tons by the tile mine tons by gunfire and tons tona from various other causes I These figures ures show that England and her lIer allies have lost OOOO tons of ot naval na na- na- na al val fighting Os material costing approximately I matel the I and Turkish losses total 1 11 tons tolls worth about The figures hures also show that the miscellaneous miscellaneous miscellaneous mis mis- losses officially recorded are approximately the same on both sides aides while from from- torpedo gun and mine the British and their allies h have ilave c lost nearly nearl double the tonnage that their opponents have lost by the same annie causes causes causee B By torpedo torpedo tor tar the British losses are ten times more than those of oC the other side which shows clearly clearl how Important a apart apart part part- that weapon plays plas English u Use Une Guns Gun In gunfire England has hns established a along along along long lead chiefly because the German ships at large when war was declared declared have been destroyed by this means In InthA tho thA armed merchantmen and auxiliary class tile the net register tonnage of allied ships destroyed amounts to to while tho the German Austrian and Turkish losses stand at approximately approximate double that figure The total financial loss in inthis inthis this Instance amounts to about 1 15 Thus Thus ten months of or skirmishing and preliminary actions leading t to no deCi- deCi so far as the question of ot na naval naval na- na val al supremacy is concerned d has bro brought ht about the thc destruction of ot about tons of ot warships costing O oOOO