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| Among the modern inventions which insure a battleship's efficiency
is the searchlight, which must sweep not only the sea but the sky
to find the enemy |
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| The German steamer "Walküre" sunk in the harbor
of Papeete, Tahiti, when the German cruisers "Scharnhorst" and
"Gneisenau" shelled the town |
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| The Australian cruiser "Sydney" which caught and
destroyed the raider "Emden" near the Cocos Islands |
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| The famous German raider "Emden" beached on one of
the Cocos Islands after being wrecked by the "Sydney's" shells |
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| Rescuing drowning sailors after the naval battle
near the Falkland islands, in which the "Scharnhorst," "Gneisenau,"
"Nurnberg" and "Leipzig" were sunk |
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| Canadian soldiers shipping a rapid-fire gun, on
embarking at Montreal for England, to take their part in the Great
War |
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| The interior of a submarine, showing torpedo tubes
and batteries. The flooring which covers the batteries has been
removed |
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| The German cruiser "Blücher" turning on her
side as she sank in the North Sea battle of January 24, 1915. The
other vessels of the German squadron escaped |
Great Britain, after six months of naval warfare had lost three battleships, the Bulwark, Formidable, and Audacious;[*] the five armored cruisers Aboukir, Cressy, Hogue, Monmouth, and Good Hope; the second-class cruisers Hawke and Hermes; the two third-class cruisers Amphion and Pegasus; the protected scout Pathfinder and the converted liner Oceanic; losses in destroyers and other small vessels were negligible.
[Footnote *: The British admiralty did not clear up the mystery of her disaster.]