Show WARSHIP SUNK IN ENGLISH CHANNEL BRITISH battleship SENT TO BOTTOM BY MINE OR SUBMARINE BOAT of the baw of seven hundred fifty men six hundred met death a number being picked up by a light cruiser london tho the destruction ot of the british battleship formidable in the english channel friday by a mine or a submarine boat although one 0 ot those events englishmen now realize must be expected so long as the british navy la Is compelled to keep the seas has caused widespread grief this is duel due not so much to the loss 0 of the ship which was fifteen years old and cost about as it Is for the men in number who went down with her of the men of the crew ar are e known to have been rescued A light cruiser picked up eighty and a tor bay trawler seventy among the rescued are eight officers and six midshipmen the british battleship formidable had a displacement of tons she was feet long and carid a c complement m of men she was heavily armored and carried tour four 12 inch guns twelve 6 inch guns and sixteen 12 she was provided also with tour four submerged torpedo tubes |