Another lamentable disaster has befallen the British Navy, Submarine B
2 having been sunk with a lose of fifteen lives early on the morning of yesterday week. The submarine, with others of the flotilla, had started out from Dover at 5 a.m. for the manmuvring ground, and at about 5.30, when some six miles out, while steaming on the surface with all navi- gation lights showing, was cut down by the Hamburg- American liner Amerika,' outward bound from Hamburg to New York. Lieutenant Pulleyne, who was on watch on deck at the time and was carried down to a great depth, had a wonderful escape, being picked up by another submarine after swimming for more than half an hour, but Lieutenant O'Brien the commander and fourteen petty officers and men were lost. A most impressive funeral service was held on Thursday at 2 p.m., at the scene of the disaster, on board the cruiser 'Forth,' which was moored above the wreck, while some forty submarines and destroyers of the Third, Sixth and Seventh flotillas were also present. Of the heroic officers and crews the submarines we can only say that they are British sailo —non amplius verbunt.
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