Central Powers Warship Losses, 1914 + 1915

This information, taken from a 1916 publication has been kindly contributed by Cliff McMullen. Note that some of this information will be in error - and the very optimistic list of u-boat losses!


From "The Navy League Annual 1915/16"

TABLES of WARSHIP LOSSES

(Corrected to Jan. 19th, 1916.)

II.

THE ENEMY NAVIES

F. - GERMANY

Battleships:

A battleship of the Deutschland class (identified as the Pommern) was reported to have been torpedoed in the Gulf of Danzig on 2nd July, 1915, by an unknown British submarine. Loss, however, is not definitely certain.

There are good grounds for believing that the German battle-cruiser von der Tann was sunk on or about 16th Dec., 1914.

Armoured Cruisers:

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Blucher '08 15,550 12 - 8.2"

8 - 5.9"

Sunk by gun-fire and torpedoes of British battle-cruisers, light cruisers, and destroyers near the Dogger Bank, 24th Jan., 1915.
Scharnhorst

Gneisenau

'06 11,420 8 - 8.2"

6 - 5.9"

Both armoured cruisers sunk by the gun-fire of the British battle-cruisers Invincible Inflexible near the Falkland Islands, 8th Dec., 1914.
Yorck '04 9,350 4 - 8.2"

10 - 5.9"

Mined by German mine in Jade Bay, 4th Nov., 1914.
Friedrich Karl '01 8,858 " Mined by German or Russian mine in the Baltic, 12th Dec., 1914.
Prinz Adalbert " " " Torpedoed in the Baltic by an unknown British submarine, 23rd Oct., 1915.

Light Cruisers:

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Karlsruhe '13 4,822 12 - 4.1" Believed to have been destroyed by internal explosion in the Caribbean Sea about the end of Oct. or early in Nov. 1914.
Magdeburg '11 4,478 " Stranded on Aland Islands in the Baltic and destroyed by the gun-fire of Russian cruisers, 28th Aug., 1914.
Koln

Mainz

'09 4,280 " Both light cruisers sunk by the gun-fire of British light cruisers in the Blight of Heligoland, 28th Aug., 1914.
Emden '08 3,598 10 - 4.1" Beached and surrendered after total disablement by gun-fire of Australian light cruiser Sydney at the Keelings (Cocos) Islands, Indian Ocean, 10th Nov., 1914. Emden is under salvage for Australian Navy.
Dresden " " " Scuttled at Juan Fernandez Island off the Chilean Coast, 15th March, 1915.
Nurnberg '06 3,396 " Sunk by gun-fire of the British armoured cruiser Kent near the Falkland Islands, 8th Dec., 1914.
Konigsberg '05 3,348 " Blocked in the Rufidji River (German East Africa) by British light cruiser Chatham, 30th Oct., 1914; destroyed by British monitors Severn and Mersey, 6th and 11th July, 1915.
Leipzig " 3,200 " Sunk by gun-fire of British armoured cruiser Cornwall and light cruiser Glasgow near the Falkland Islands, 8th Dec., 1914.
Bremen '03 " " Torpedoed in the Baltic by an unknown British or Russian submarine, 17th Dec., 1915.
Undine '02 2,672 " Torpedoed in the Baltic by an unknown British submarine, 7th Nov., 1915.
Ariadne '00 2,618 " Set on fire and sunk by gun-fire of British battle-cruiser Lion in the Blight of Heligoland, 28th Aug., 1914.
Hela '95 2,003 4 - 3.4" Torpedoed by the British submarine E-9 off the German Coast, 13th Sept., 1914.

Mine-layer:

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Albatross '07 2,165 8 - 3.4"

400 mines

Disabled by gun-fire of Russian cruisers, driven ashore near Ostergarm Lighthouse, Gothland Island (Baltic) and interned, 1st July, 1915.

Unprotected Cruisers (Sloops):

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Geier '94 1,604 8 - 4.1" Interned at Honolulu, 8th Nov., 1914.
Kormoran I* '92 " Nil Scuttled at Tsing-tao, 4th Nov., 1914.

* Kormoran I was disarmed at time of loss. For Kormoran II (ex-Russian Riasan) see Armed Merchant Cruisers.

Gunboats:

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Eber '03 984 Nil Interned at Bahia, Sept. 1914. Disarmed at time of internment. Eber is reported to have supplied armament to Armed Mercantile Cruiser Kap Trafalgar.
Luchs*

Tiger*

Iltis

Jaguar

-98-99 886 "

"

2 - 4.1"

"

Scuttled at Tsing-tao, 4th Nov., 1914. (Wrecks since sold to Japanese salvage companies.) * were disarmed at time of loss and reported to have similarly supplied guns to the Armed Merchant Cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich.
Tsing-tao

Vaterland

'03 220 Nil Interned in Chinese port, Aug. 1914; since reported to have been sold by auction. (Both shallow-draught river gun-boats.) Were disarmed at time of internment.
Planet '05 640 3 - 1 pdr. Scuttled at Yap Island (Caroline Islands) about Sept. 1914 (Surveying Ship).
Mowe " " " Sunk by gun-fire of British light cruiser Pegasus at Dar-es-Salaam, 9th Aug., 1914 (Surveying Ship).

Torpedo-Craft - Destroyers (D), Torpedo-boats (TB):

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
One of G-196 type (D) '11 689 2 - 24 pdr.

4 - 18" T.

Torpedoed off German Coast by an unknown British submarine, 26th July, 1915.
V-187 (D) '10 " " Sunk by gun-fire of British light cruisers and destroyers in the Blight of Heligoland, 28th Aug. 1914.
S-124 (D) '04 463 3 - 4 pdr

3 - 18" T.

Sunk after collision with an unknown Danish steamer in the North Sea, 24th Nov., 1914.
S-119 (D)

S-118 (D)

S-117 (D)

S-115 (D)

'02 - '03 413 " All four destroyers sunk by gun-fire of the British light cruiser Undaunted and destroyers of the L type off the Dutch Coast, 17th Oct., 1914.
S-116 (D) " " " Torpedoed off the German Coast by the British submarine E-9, 16th Oct., 1914.
S-90 (D) '99 396 " Wrecked on coast of Kiao-Chau, 21st Oct., 1914.
Taku (D) '98 393 2 - 4 pdr. Scuttled at Tsing-tao, 4th Nov., 1914.
Unidentified (D) - - - Sunk by gun-fire of French destroyers Branlebas and Oriflamme off Ostend on night of 22nd Aug., 1915.
And Others (D) - - - Sunk by mines and other causes at various dates (including two believed to have been sunk by gun-fire in the Heligoland Blight, 28th Aug.
Unidentified (TB) - - - Torpedoed in the Baltic while in company with

German light cruiser Bremen, by an unknown British submarine, 17th Dec., 1915.

Unidentified (TB) - - - Sunk by collision with the Sassnitz -Trelleborg Ferry Pruessen in the Baltic, 15th Oct., 1915.
Unidentified (TB) - - - Sunk off Belgian Coast by Dover Patrol between

22nd Aug. and 19th Nov., 1915. Exact date not known.

And Others (TB) - - - Mined and sunk by other causes in the North Sea and Baltic at various times. No details available.

Note. - Another destroyer, S-126, is reported to have been torpedoed by a British submarine on 6th Oct., 1914, but it is probably S-116 (given above) wrongly identified.

Submarines :

All details of German submarines are so unreliable that no figures are appended to following list of losses. The numbers given are those officially announced, where stated. But the index-numbers on German submarines have been continuously "faked" to prevent accurate identification.

Number

Cause, locality, and date of loss
U-30 Mined off Borkum, 22nd June, 1915. (Possibly salved.)
U-29 Sunk about March 1915. Exact cause, locality, and date not known.
U-27 Acknowledged as "missing" by the German Admiralty in August 1915. (Last heard of on 10th Aug., 1915.) It is possible that U-27 was the unidentified submarine destroyed by H.M.S. Baralong.
U-18 Sunk near Pentland Skerries by British destroyers of the River type, 24th Nov., 1914.
U-15 Rammed or sunk by gun-fire of the British light cruiser Birmingham in the North Sea, 8th Aug., 1914.
U-14 Sunk about 9th June, 1915. Exact cause, locality, and date of loss not known.
U-12 Sunk by British destroyer Ariel, 10th March, 1915. (Exact locality not known.)
U-8 (a) Sunk off Dover by the British destroyers Maori and Ghurka, 4th March, 1915.
U-8 (b) Stranded on Terschelling Island (off the Dutch Coast) and interned, 6th Nov., 1915.
Unidentified Sunk 70 miles S. of Queenstown (Southern Irish Coast) gun-fire of H.M. Armed Auxiliary Baralong, 19th Aug., 1915. (See loss of U-27.)
Unidentified Sunk off Ostend by aero-bomb from British seaplane (Flight-Commander A.W. Bigsworth, R.N.A.S.), 26th Aug., 1915.
Unidentified Sunk off Middelkerke (Belgian Coast) by aero-bomb from British seaplane (Flight Sub-Lt. Viney, R.N.A.S.), 29th Nov., 1915.
Unidentified Sunk or captured by British patrol craft in the Irish Sea after being rammed and severely damaged by the S.S. Cottingham, June 1915. (Exact date not known.)
Unidentified

Unidentified

Both submarines destroyed off Belgian Coast by the Dover Patrol between 22nd Aug. and 19th Nov., 1915. (Exact cause and dates of losses not known.)
And Others Mined, rammed, destroyed by explosives and gun-fire, disabled, netted, and captured by British warships, auxiliaries, armed trawlers, patrol craft, etc., at various dates. Totals and details not published.
And Others "Probably sunk," whose definite loss cannot at present be ascertained. (Includes one rammed off Belgian Coast by British destroyer Badger, 24th Oct., 1914.)
And Others Rammed and sunk by British mercantile craft. No details available. (Includes one so attacked by S.S. Thordis off Beachy Head, 28th Feb., 1915.)
And Others Accidentally lossed at various dates. Details not known. (Includes one which fouled trawls of North Shields trawler Alexander Hastie, capsized and sank, 105 miles E.N.E. of Longstone Lighthouse, 23rd Feb., 1915.)
And Others Destroyed by Russian warships, patrol craft, etc., in the Baltic, by French and Allied warships, auxiliaries, etc., in the Atlantic, Aegean, and Mediterranean Seas at various dates. Details not published.

Note. - German submarines under construction at the Cockerill Yard, Hoboken, Antwerp, and at Zeebrugge, have been destroyed and severely damaged while on the stocks and while fitting out, by naval bombardments and by aero-bombs.

Vedette Boats :

A-2 and A-6, two small vedette boats, were sunk by gun-fire of British destroyers of the L type in the North Sea, 2nd May, 1915.

Armed Merchant Cruisers :

Number

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse Sunk by gun-fire of the British light cruiser Highflyer off the Rio del Oro (N.E. African Coast), 26th Aug., 1914.
Prinz Eitel Friedrich Interned at Norfolk, U.S.A., 9th April, 1915.
Kronprinz Wilhelm Interned at Norfolk, U.S.A., 27th April, 1915.
Kap Trafalgar Sunk by gun-fire of British armed mercantile cruiser Carmania, off the East Coast of South America, 14th Sept., 1914.
Kormoran II Ex-Russian transport Riasan, captured 100 miles north of Nagasaki by German light cruiser Emden, 6th Aug., 1914. Taken to Tsing-tao, receiving guns of Kormoran I, and renamed Kormoran II. Interned at Guam, 16th Dec., 1914.
Navarra Set on fire and scuttled to avoid capture off the Rio de la Plata, S. America. 11th Nov., 1914.
Berlin (Mine-layer) Interned at Trondjheim, Norway, 16th Nov., 1914.
Konigin Luise (Mine-layer) Sunk by gun-fire of British light cruiser Amphion and destroyers of the L type off the mouth of the Thames, 5th Aug., 1914.
Rubin (?) (Mine-layer) Reported to have been scuttled at Tsing-tao, 4th Nov., 1914.
Meteor (Mine-layer) Scuttled in the North Sea to avoid capture, 8th Aug., 1915.

Other Mercantile Auxiliaries and Tenders (arranged alphabetically) :

Note - Ships marked ** used as tenders to commerce-destroying light cruisers and armed mercantile cruisers; other ships marked * are believed to have been used in a like capacity.

Number

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Aeolus * Sunk off Honolulu by Japanese battleship Hizen, 24th Oct., 1914.
Baden ** Sunk by British light cruiser Bristol and armed mercantile Macedonia near the Falkland Islands, 8th Nov., 1914.
Bethania ** Captured by British armoured cruiser Essex, 300 miles off Cape Hatteras, and taken to Kingston, Jamaica, 10th Dec., 1914.
Bunz Patrol ship mined on the night of 17th Dec., 1915, off Rudkjobing on the Danish Island of Langeland.
Buresk ** Collier captured by German light cruiser Emden, 27th Sept., 1914. Scuttled at the Keelings Islands, 10th Nov., 1914.
Eleonore Woermann * Sunk in South Atlantic by Australian battle-cruiser Australia, 6th Jan., 1915
Emden II Ex-schooner Ayesha captured at Keelings Islands by light cruiser Emden, 10th Nov., 1914. Scuttled when in company with German steamer Choising, 15th Dec., 1914.
Elsbeth * Collier bound from Tsing-tao to Yap Island (Caroline Islands). Sunk by British armoured cruiser Hampshire in Sept. or Nov. 1914.
Exford ** Captured by German light cruiser Emden and used as a tender. Recaptured by British armed mercantile cruiser Empress of Asia and taken to Singapore, 15th Dec., 1914.
Farn ** Captured by German light cruiser Karlsruhe, 25th Sept., 1914 and used as a tender. Interned at Porto Rico, 12th Jan., 1915.
Graecia * Captured and taken into Gibraltar, 15th Oct., 1914.
Hoffnung * (Ex-Indrani.) Captured by German light cruiser Karlsruhe, 17th Sept., 1914. (Present ownership not known.)
Hermann von Wiesmann Disabled and captured by H.M.S. Gwendolen at Sphinx Haven (E. Shore of Lake Nyassa, Central Africa), about 13th Aug., 1914.
Holger * Interned at Honolulu, 20th Feb., 1915.
Itolo Sunk by gun-fire of French "aviso" Surprise in Corsica Bay, Sept. 1914.
Karnak * Interned, Nov. 1914. (Details wanted.)
Kingani Armed steamer disabled by gun-fire of unknown British ship and captured on Lake Tanganyika, 26th Dec., 1915.
Komet Captured at Rabaul by Australian Expeditionary Force (now H.M.A.S. Una).
Locksun * Interned 8th Nov., 1914. (Details wanted.)
Macedonia * Captured after breaking out of internment at Las Palmas (Canary Islands), and taken to Gibraltar, 2nd May, 1915.
Markomannia * Sunk by gun-fire of British light cruiser Yarmouth near Sumatra 14th Oct., 1914.
Ophelia Brought into Yarmouth by British destroyer Meteor, 18th Dec., 1914. Condemned as lawful prize by British Prize Court, 20th May, 1915, for illegal use under the disguise of a hospital-ship.
Paklat * Captured in attempting to run through blockade of Tsing-tao and taken to Hong-Kong, 21st Aug., 1914.
Pontoporos * Greek collier captured by German light cruiser Emden in Bay of Bengal, 10th Sept., 1914. Recaptured by British light cruiser Yarmouth, 12th Oct., 1914. (Since returned to original Greek owners.)
Pruessen Reported to have been interned at Sarang (?) Bay. (Details wanted.)
Rhios Sunk by gun-fire of French "aviso" Surprise in Corsica Bay Sept. 1914.
Santa Isabel Sunk by gun-fire of British light cruiser Bristol and armed cruiser Macedonia, off the Falkland Islands, 8th Nov., 1914.
Siu Mow Captured by Japanese destroyer near Tomogashima Island, 15th Sept., 1914. (Now Japanese Fleet Auxiliary Tomoshima Maru.)
Somali * Captured near Mafia Island off German East African Coast scuttled in Rufidji River. Believed to have been acting as tender to German light cruiser Konigsberg.
Spreewald * Captured by British armoured cruiser Berwick and taken into St. Lucia, 12th Sept., 1914.
Soden Captured, Sept. 1914, in the Cameroons River by British armoured cruiser Cumberland.
Tannenfels * Captured in Basilan Strait by unknown British warship and taken into Hong-Kong, 8th Oct., 1914. (Now H.M.S. Basilan.)
Unidentified Auxiliary vessel torpedoed by an unkown British warship (commanded by Lieut.-Commander K.J. Duff-Dunbar, R.N. D.S.O.) on 22nd Dec., 1915. (Exact locality not known.)
Vandyck * Captured by German light cruiser Karlsruhe, 26th Oct., 1914. Present ownership not known. (This is the last information of the Karlsruhe since her disappearance.)
Vege (?) Armed German patrol vessel or guard-ship sunk off Libau by Russian torpedo-craft, about 25th Nov., 1915.

The following German steamers were captured in the Cameroons River by the British armoured cruiser Cumberland about the end of Sept. 1914. Some may have been used as supply ships to German commerce-raiding light cruisers and armed mercantile cruisers :
Aline Woermann Henriette Woermann Max Brock
Arnfried Herzogin Elisabeth * Paul Woermann
Erna Woermann Jeanette Woermann Renata Amsinck
Hans Woermann Kamerun .

* Colonial Government steamer scuttled but capable of salvage.

Various German armed trawlers, mine-sweepers, armed yachts, etc., have been lost in the Baltic and North Sea by mines, wrecking, attacks by British submarines, and other causes; others have been captured. No details available.

G. - AUSTRIAN NAVY

Battleships and Armoured Cruisers. - Nil.

Protected and Light Cruisers :

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Unidentified '09-'13 3,384 9 or 7 - 4.1" Light cruiser of the Novara-Admiral Spaun type, torpedoed by the French submarine Foucault, in Lower Adriatic, 13th Jan., 1916.
Kaiserin Elisabeth '90 3,937 8 - 5.9" Scuttled at Tsing-tao to avoid capture, 4th Nov., 1914.
Zenta '97 2,363 8 - 4.7" Sunk by gun-fire of French armoured cruisers at Castellastua, 18th Aug., 1914.

Note.- An Austrian light cruiser of the Admiral Spaun type and three or four large Chilean destroyers were building at Monfalcone at the beginning of the war. Probably the hulls were destroyed before the evacuation of the port by Austrian troops. The dockyard has since been bombarded and burnt out.

Torpedo-Craft - Destroyers (D), Torpedo-boats (TB), and Submarines (S) :

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Lika (D)

Triglav (D)

'13 837 2 - 3.9"

6 - 11 pdr.

2 or 4 T.

Both destroyers mined off Durazzo in the Adriatic on 29th Dec., 1915.
No.19 (TB) '86 78 2 - 1 pdr.

1 tube

Mined near Pola, 17th Aug. 1914.
U-12 (S) '14 700/1,070 ? guns

? tubes

Torpedoed in the Adriatic by an unknown Italian submarine, 10th Aug., 1915.
U-3 (S) '08 240/300 2 - 18" T. Sunk by gun-fire of French destroyer Bisson off the Montenegrin Coast, 15th Aug., 1915.
And Others -- - Sunk in the Adriatic and Mediterranean by various hostile attacks, mines, and other causes. No details published.

Monitors and Vedette Boats (Danube Flotilla) :

Name or Number

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns and Tubes (T)

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Temes '04 433 2 - 4.7"

1 - 4.7" (howitzer)

Mined in the Danube River, 23rd Nov., 1914.
Another Monitor ? ? ? Torpedoed in night attack made by British picket-boat operating in the Danube River, 22nd April, 1915.
And Others - - - Vedette boats, armed patrol motor-launches, mine-sweepers, and other smaller craft sunk by mines and gun-fire in the Danube at various dates. No details available.

Mercantile Auxiliaries, etc. :
Name Cause, Locality, and Date of Loss
Bathori Sunk off Spanish Coast by British cruiser Minerva, 3rd Sept., 1914.
Beethoven (Ex-training ship.) Mined in the Adriatic, 17th Dec., 1914.
And Others Smaller patrol craft, mine-sweepers, armed yachts, etc., sunk in the Adriatic by derelict mines and other causes. No details available.

H. - TURKISH NAVY.

According to a statement made by Mr. Asquith, the total of Turkish warships, supply ships, and other auxiliaries sunk by British submarines in the Sea of Marmora and the Dardanelles was, on 26th Oct., 1915, as follows :

2 battleships

5 gunboats

1 torpedo-boat (+1)*

8 transports

197 supply ships (+1)*

* To these figures must be added 1 torpedo-boat (Yar Hissar), 1 supply-steamer of 3,000 tons, and three supply sailing-ships sunk in the Sea of Marmora by an unknown British submarine on the 2nd-3rd Dec., 1915.

Battleships:

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Kheyr-ed-din Barbarosse '91 9,900 6 - 11"(old)

8 - 3.4"

Torpedoed in the Sea of Marmora by an unknown British submarine, 3rd Aug., 1915.
Messoudieh '74

('02)

10,000 2 - 9.2"

12 - 6"

Torpedoed in the Narrows by the British

submarine B-11, 13th Dec., 1914. Messoudieh was reconstructed at Genoa in 1902.

Cruiser :

Name

Date

Displ (Tons)

Guns

Cause, locality, and date of loss
Medjidieh '03 3,330 2 - 6"

8 - 4.7"

Mined in the Black Sea, 4th April, 1915. (Since salved and repaired at Odessa; reported to be now the Russian cruiser Prut or Admiral Korniloff.)

Gunboats :
Name Date Displ. (Tons) Guns and Tubes Cause, Locality and Date of Loss
Burak Reis '12 502 2 - 3.9" Scuttled at Tschema to avoid capture, 31st Oct. 1914.
Hiziz Reis " " " Mined in the Black Sea, Dec., 1914.
One of Burak Reis type

One of Malatia type

"

'08

"

210

"

2 - 3 pdr. 1 - 18" T.

Both gunboats disabled by gun-fire of three Russian torpedo-craft, driven ashore and

wrecked on Kephken Island, Black Sea,

(One wreck destroyed by explosion about three days later.)

Marmaris '07 492 4 - 9 pdr.

2 - 1 pdr.

Sunk by gun-fire of British sloops and river craft in the Tigris River, June 1915.
Peik-i-Shevket " 763 2 - 4.1"

6 - 6 pdr.

2 - 1 pdr.

Torpedoed on the Sea of Marmora by an unknown British submarine, 29th April, 1915.
Berk-i-Satvet " " " Torpedoed in the Sea of Marmora by an unknown British submarine, 8th Aug., 1915.
Two Others unidentified - - - Torpedoed by an unknown British submarine in addition to foregoing gunboats; one so sunk on 3rd May, 1915. (See Mr. Asquith's statement at head of Turkish losses.)
Unidentified - - - Mined in the Black Sea, 21st Jan., 1915.
And Others - - - Sunk by Russian bombardments of Turkish Black Sea ports, by mines and other causes. No details available.

Torpedo-Craft - Destroyer (D), Torpedo-boats (TB), and Submarine (S) :
Name Date Displ (Tons) Guns and Tubes Cause, Locality and Date of Loss
Yar Hissar (D) '07 284 1 - 6 pdr.

6 - 3 pdr.

3 tubes

Torpedoed in the Sea of Marmora by an unknown British submarine, 2nd Dec., 1915.
Timur Hissar (TB) " 96 2 - 1 pdr.

3 tubes

Driven ashore and wrecked on Greek Island in the Aegean Sea and interned, 17th April, 1915.
Unidentified (TB) - - - Torpedoed by an unknown British submarine in addition to the foregoing torpedo-boat. (Included in Mr. Asquith's statement given at the head of Turkish losses.)
Unidentified (S) '15 ? ? Stranded on Anatolian Coast and destroyed by Russian torpedo-craft, 11th Jan., 1916
And Others - - - Mined, sunk by gun-fire and other causes in the Black Sea and Sea of Marmora. No details available.

Auxiliary Ships:
Totals Remarks
8 Transports Unidentified; sunk by unknown British submarines in the Sea of Marmora.*
And Other Transports Sunk by aero-bombs in the Sea of Marmora.
201 Supply Ships Unidentified; sunk by unknown British submarines in the Sea of Marmora.*
And Other Auxiliaries Destroyed by gun-fire of Allied warships in the Black Sea, Sea of Marmora, Tigris River, and on the Syrian Coast, also by mines and other causes. No details available.

* See Mr. Asquith's statement at head of Turkish losses.

L. - BULGARIA.

No losses reported at the time these tables were prepared, beyond an unconfirmed report that a torpedo-boat of the Bistri class had been destroyed during a Russian bombardment of Varna in the Black Sea.


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