19 JUNE 1915, Page 2

Early on Thursday week the torpedo-boats Nos. 10 and 12

were torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the East Coast. Forty-one survivors were landed. These two vessels, built in 1906-7, belonged to the class originally known as "coastal destroyers." They had a displacement of two hundred and fifteen tone and a speed of twenty-six knots, and each of them carried two twelve-pounders.