[1] Note.—This book was completed in May, 1917, but was withheld from publication on account of the many omissions prescribed by the Naval Censor.
[2] The German Chancellor had publicly declared the intention to capture the French colonies.
[3] See [Map, p. 5.]
[4] Carmania, Cunard S.S. Co.—19,524 tons, 650 feet long, triple screw turbines.
Cap Trafalgar, Hamburg-Sud-Amerik S.S. Co.—18,710 tons, 590 feet long, triple screw turbines.
[5] According to "Brassey's Naval Annual."
[6] German wireless system.
[7] "Tales of the Great War" (Longmans).
[8] "Blackwood's Magazine."
[9] The Seydlitz—the German auxiliary that escaped—took in the wireless signal announcing the victory and actually heard the firing of the Cornwall and the Glasgow on her beam about four miles off. She managed to escape under cover of the fog by steering to the south, but it was a near thing.