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Show WARSHIP SUNK IN EN6LISHGHANNEL BRITISH BATTLESHIP SENT TO BOTTOM BY MINE OR SUB- MARINE BOAT. Of the Crew of Seven Hundred Fifty Men, Six Hundred Met Death, a Number Being Picked Up by a Light Cruiser. London. Tho destruction ot the British battleship Formidable In the English channel Friday by a mlno or a submarine boat, although ono of thoso events Englishmen now realize must bo expected so long as the British Brit-ish navy Is compellod to keep tho seas, has caused widespread grief. This Is due not bo much to tho loss of tho ship, which was fifteen years old and cost about $5,000,000, as It Is for tho men GOO Jn number who went down with her. Of tho 750 men of tho Formldablo's crew 150 are known to havo been rescued. A light cruiser picked up eighty and a Tor bay trawler seventy. Among tho rescued res-cued aro eight officers and bIx midshipmen. mid-shipmen. Tho British battleship Formidable hud a displacement of 15,000 tons. She was 430 foot long and carlred a complement com-plement of 750 men. She was heavily heav-ily armored and carried four 12-lnch guns, twelvo C-lnch guns nnd sixteen 12-pounders. She was provided alBO with four submerged torpedo tubes. |