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Died. Admiral Martin Eric Dunbar-Nasmith, 82, British World War I naval hero and inventor of the retractable periscope, who in 1915 took submarine Ell through the Dardanelles minefields into the Sea of Marmara, where in 96 days he sank 96 Turkish ships, for which he got the Victoria Cross, Britain's highest military decoration; of a kidney disease; in Elgin, Scotland...
...raider and he wriggled out of the harbor as he had come, after executing perfectly a feat to rank with Stephen Decatur's burning of the frigate Philadelphia in Tripoli (1804), William Barker Cushing's torpedoing of the Albemarle in Plymouth, N. C. (1864), Commander M. E. Nasmith's penetration of the Dardanelles with the submarine E11 (1916), Commander Luigi Rizzo's sneak shot from a motorboat with a torpedo into the Austrian battleship Szent-Istvan at Trieste...
...Royal Indian Navy is a paper promise to His Majesty's nut-brown subjects, but from the potent Imperial East Indies Station went Vice-Admiral Dunbar-Nasmith who won his Victoria Cross by torpedoing and sinking from his submarine Ell precisely eleven Turkish ships...
Last week the question was brought to a friendly conclusion. Great Britain withdrew its charges against Slater and Brooks. Secretary Hughes announced, through Ambassador Kellogg, his intention to reopen the Consulate at Newcastle-on-Tyne, and to appoint Charles Roy Nasmith as Consul. Premier MacDonald's letter to the Ambassador said : "I have the honor to inform you that after further consideration, His Majesty's Government are prepared not to insist upon the charge of exceeding their consular authority, laid about a year and a half ago, against the then American Consul and Vice Consul at Newcastle...
...Mayhew, Brazer, Burrows, A. F. Davis, Nasmith, Rafsky, Urofsky...