14 AUGUST 1915, Page 1
The chief naval event of the week in home waters
was announced on Thursday. The Admiralty communication begins by recording the destruction of a small armed patrol vessel, the 'Ramsey,' which was sunk by a German armed fleet auxiliary steamer, • Meteor,' on August 8th, in the North Sea. Four officers and thirty-nine men Were, we are glad to say, saved. Then follows the announcement that the 'Meteor' subsequently sighted a squadron of British cruisers, and her commanding officer, realizing that escape was impossible, ordered the crew to abandon the ship and then blew her up. The Meteor' was in all probability the Hamburg-American vessel of 3,613 tons, built in 1901.
