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...engineers built cofferdams around her, patched her up and sent her to sea again where she promptly bumped into another mine. In 1917 she was severely bombed by British aviators. Battered but indestructible, the Goeben-Sultan Selim remained afloat. In 1918 with the Breslau, the patch-bottomed Sultan Selim sank the British monitors Raglan and M 28. She was mined again and beached by her commander. Allied bombing planes and submarines attacked her repeatedly, but she remained unsinkable...
There was no suitable Navy yard in Turkey. Penhoet built one at Ismid, with a model village for 1500 workmen and 250 French engineers and foremen. The Yawuz Sultan Selim was hauled into a floating dry dock, which promptly sank under the cruiser's weight, had to be rebuilt. But the work was finally completed. Last week's fleet maneuvers proved that the Yawuz Sultan Selim is still one of the most useful of battle cruisers...
...petty retainer of the Lord of Kagoshima. He commenced sailor's career at 16 and at 21 first came under fire, in fighting with the late Enomoto's Kwaiten; studied in England, '71-73; in the Japan-China War commanded the cruiser Naniwa and sank the Chinese transport Kowsing, a British steamer flying the British flag (see p. 39); Rear-Admiral after the War; Vice-Admiral in '90; Commander-in-Chief of the Combined Fleet in the '04-05 War and hero of the Japan Sea battle fought on 27th May, '05; Full Admiral...
...British submarine Poseidon came spuming to the surface like a dolphin after air. The hatches sprang open. The crew started clambering out. Thirty-one were on deck and 18 below when the Yuta, Chinese merchantman, smacked against the Poseidon's forward starboard side. In two minutes the Poseidon sank in 120 ft. of water...
General Italo Balbo, whose famed triads leaped the Atlantic to Natal last January, was nearly drowned last week in the Bay of Naples when his seaplane struck a submerged buoy in taking off, and sank. Two months ago the general's adjutant, Col. Umberto Maddalena, and two flyers of the squadron were killed when a propeller snapped and tore through the cabin of their plane (TIME, March...