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Show ANOTHER BRITISH 1RSJPIS SUNK BATTLESHIP GOLIATH TORPEDOED TORPE-DOED IN DARDANELLES AND OVER 500 LIVES LOST. British Submarine Penetrates to Sea of Marmora in Daring Dash and Sinks Two Turkish Gunboats and a Transport. London Another battleship, the Goliath, Go-liath, the third that the British have lost since the attack on the Dardanelles Darda-nelles began, has been torpedoed by the Turks, and of the crew of 700 or more only 180, including twenty of- ficers, were saved. While the Goliath was an old vessel, she was very userul j for the work to which she had been assigned, and the loss in men is serious. seri-ous. There is some consolation to the j British people in other news from jthe Dardanelles, that a British submarine, sub-marine, in a daring dash through the straits, into the sea of Marmora, torpedoed tor-pedoed two Turkish gunboats and a large transport. This probably is the submarine which the Turks thought they had sunk, but which apparently succeeded in getting back through the mine-strewn passage. Announcement of the loss of the Goliath Go-liath was made Thursday afternoon by Winton Spencer Churchill, first lord of the admiralty. The Goliath was one of the older British battleships of the predread-naught predread-naught type. She was built in 1898. Her complement was 750 men. |