Show SINKS BRITISH CRUISER LONDON April 15 The INS INS The British admiralty Tuesday ann announced an- an n that the cruiser H. H M. M S. S D Bonaventure had been torpedoed a and id d sunk while escorting a convoy cony cony con- con voy y y of merchant ships The he Bonaventure was practically a new craft having been built in 39 The ill-fated ill warship was of r 50 tons displacement feet long ng and with a 51 foot foot beam The Bonaventure mounted 10 inch five inch re-inch guns and 16 smaller of- of weapons and was equipped with th six inch 21 torpedo tubes Janes Fighting Ships authoritative tive ire organ of the worlds world's navies fails fails- to assign a complement of men menthe mento to the Bonaventure However on one the e basis of comparison with ships of af it is 15 believed about 0 men were aboard the ship when len the torpedo struck There Th re were no immediate details as to crew losses or the scene of the Bonaventure's sinking |