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Show hours later, according to an admiralty announcement tonight. Thirly-nine officers offi-cers and 672 men were saved. The Britannia, which had a displacement displace-ment of 16,350 tons, was launched at Portsmouth December 10, 1904. She was 153 feet in length, had a speed of approximately ap-proximately 19 knots an hour and carried a peace-time complement of 777 men. Her main armament consisted of four 12-inch guns. BRITISH WARSHIP SUNK BY TORPEDO NEAR GIBRALTAR LONDON, Nov. 11. The British battleship bat-tleship Britannia was torpedoed near the west entrance to the Straits of Gibraltar on November 9 and sank three and a half |