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Show RUSSIAN SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT SINKS IN STORM SN BLACK SEA Twenty Members of Her Crew, Including the Captain, First Lieutenanl and Chief Engineer Perish Flotilla Is Conducting Series of Night Maneuvers When Kambala Collides With Another Vessel, and Goes Down Instantly SL Petersburg, June 12. The submarine sub-marine torpedo boat Kambala, of the Russian navy, has been sunk in a storm In the Black Sea, while the boat was undergoing trials. Twenty members mem-bers of her crew, including the cap- , I tain, first lieutenant and chief engineer, engi-neer, perished. Sebastopol, June 12. The following details of the foundering at sea of the Russian submaiine Kambala havo been obtained here: "The submarine flotilla was conduct-I conduct-I in?. va series of night maneuvers ! against the battleship squadron, with the idea of forcing an entrance into the harbor. During tho operations, the Kambala, upon which was Captain Cap-tain Pdcicloff, the commander of tho flotilla, and In charge of the maneuvers, maneu-vers, unaccountably left her course and swung across tho bows of the battleship battle-ship Rostlslav. The two vessels col-1 lided and the submarine sank instantly instant-ly In twenty-eight fathoms of water. The commander of the submarine, Lieut. Aqullonoff. was on deck at tho time of the accident. , lie swam away and was saved, but Captain BielekolT, Midshipman Tnchkoff, a warrant officer, of-ficer, and seventeen members of the crew perished " The Kambala the word in English rreans Flounder was of 180 tons and constructed on tho German type. An attempt will be made to raise the Knmbala. |