Show THREE SHIPS ah DARPA NELLES THREE OF THE ALLIES VESSELS SENT TO BOTTOM BY FLOATING MINES turks and germans had set adrift floating containers of explosives and these came in contact with the doomed ships london the che british battleships irresistibly irresistible and ocean and the french battleship bouvet were blown up by floating mines while engaged with the remainder ot of the allied fleet in attacking the forts torts in the narro narrows e of the Darda nelleb thursday the crews of or the two british ships were virtually all saved having been transferred to other ships under a hot alre tut but an internal explosion took place on board the bouvet after she had fouled the mine and most of tier crew was lost the bouvet sank within three minutes of the time that she hit the mine the waters vaters in aich which the ships etero ere lost had been swept of 0 mines but the british admiralty asserts that the turks and the germans set floating containers of explosives adrift and these were carried down by the cur rent into the allied ships gathered in side the entrance of the straits all the ships that were sunk were old ones the bouvet having been completed nearly twenty years ago and the ocean and irresistible in 1898 they were very useful however for the work in which they were engaged in the dardanelles Darda nelles the sunken british ships are being replaced by the battleships queen and implacable vessels of 0 a similar tipe they are said to have started some time ago tor for near eastern waters in anticipation of just such losses as have now occurred |