Show WARSHIPS I EN Z oJ 0 Two To D Destroyers Sent to toB Bot H th S of Atlantic torn tom fON f ON ON l BOA BOARD D. D THE HE DESTROYED S SICARD C RD EN ROUTE ROUT TO O o. o NORFOLK vi Va July 16 By the Associated Eren re i rhe Tho former or German destroyers V 42 V I S and S 8 were sunk Friday evening by th tho combined shell fire tire of ot th the de destroyers Q Lear Iary and Herbert and lu liat- liat f. f tl Florida and Delaware of tho thio J Atlantic Atlantia fleet They went down at atI at I a point seventy five miles oft off tho the Vir Vb Virginia Virginia Vir- Vir ginia copes copes capes selected as as tho the graveyard l t for r the th-e once enemy vessels vessels' turned o over overto r rt t to tho the United States after tho the V World war The V after being hit twice bYthe by bythe t the Lary Lan finally was accounted tor torby by ty tho the Florida which scored time aftertime after t time mo with shells from ro h. h her r. r starboard battery of ot seven coven Inch five destroyer defense rifles each of ot which s twenty times n Twenty nine ne minutest minutes s after tho the Florida opened f fire Iro at a n. ran ranee rano e of ot yards ards th tho former enemy craft cratt went ent down stern tIp up Tho ho B 8 was hit six times 3 by shells sheIla l from tho the Inch four-Inch rifles of tho Harbert Herbert Herbert Her Her- bert and was officially described then as in a a. sinking condition Sho She was is s finished off oft by the tho gunners ot of tho the Delaware who gave a great on of ot marksmanship registering hit after alter hit with shells from the battleships battleship's secondary battery The Tho S 8 ye re re remained afloat however for tor two houra hourI and five minutes after the Delaware ceas ceased firing going d down wn at 7 07 p p. p m m. m |