Norwegian steamer Spring went down in the Hjeltefjorden after an collision with S/S Herdla. The vessel was on a journey from Newcastle to Trondheim with a cargo consisting of coal when the accident occurred. Spring took in lots of water after the accident, and the captain on the vessel set course for Ramsøy to set the vessel ashore. Unfortunately for Spring the vessel took in more water than the pumps could manage, and in the situation that occurred to save vessel and cargo, they drove right in to a mountain wall. (s/s SPRING; ex:ISLE OF ELBA-?; A/S Spring (Jacobsen & Co.,Langesund; Build 1883.07 at T.& W. Smith, N. Shields; 903 grt, 562 nrt; 210.9 x 32.4 x 14.6 ft; C.2-cyl 120 nhp, Wallsend SlipwayCo. Ltd., Newcastle; s/s HERDLA; ?)

The British destroyer ERNE wrecked on East Scottish or British Coast.

The British steamship Alexandra was wrecked three miles N.E. of Sagres, while on a voyage from Odessa to Antwerp. (C. Nielsen & Sons; 1906; W. Gray & Co.; 3,001 tons; 331 x 46,1 x 21,9; 280 n.h.p.; triple-expansion engines.)

Canadian Pacific ocean liner Empress of Ireland outbound from Quebec is hit by a Norwegian collier ship Storstad at 1:55 am in Gulf or St. Lawrence; three minutes later water reaches the dynamos, dousing power and light, and the ship sinks in 11 minutes later when Storstad backs out of the hole in the hull; 1,024 lives are lost, 464 saved; $1 million in silver bars later recovered by divers (s/s STORSTAD; A/S Maritim (A. F. Klaveness & Co.), Christiania; Build 1910 at Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd., Newcastle; 6.028 grt, 3.561 nrt; 140.0 x 58.1 x 24.6 ft; T.3-cyl., 447 nhp, build by N. E. Marine Eng. Co. Ltd., Newcastle)

Cruiser HMCS Rainbow and SS Komagata Maru with a load of illegal immigrants to leave Vancouver

German steamer PRIAMUS seized by the Russian at Riga. (completed as yard No.181 in Aug 1911 by Akt. Ges. "Weser", Bremen. 660-gross tons for Dampsfschifffahrts Ges. "Neptun", Bremen Dimensions of 180.0 x 28.2. 3-cyl triple expansion engine)

Complete mobilization of the Royal Navy.

German S138 class Destroyer G143, Had a accidental boiler explosion in the Baltic Sea and sunk.

German steamer GEORGE HARPER (1.586 grt / 1907). Seized by the British Government whilst discharging a cargo of timber at Grimsby. Requisitioned by the Admiralty and management allocated to Everett and Newbigin, Newcastle-upon-Tyne. Registered at London. In May 1921 sold to Sweden and renamed B. O. BÖRJESSON. (s/s GEORGE HARPER; Dampschiff GmbH „George Harper“ (Otto Zelk), Rostock; built 1907 at A.G. „Neptun“, Rostock; 1.612 grt, 990 nrt; 261.4 x 38.1 x 16.5 ft; T.3-cyl. 132 nhp build by the yard.)

The former Russian steamer RiAsan was captured by the small cruiser Emden on 04.08.1914. Sent to Tsingtau, the ship was renamed to Cormoran and equipped with the guns of the old gunboat Cormoran . Ordered to operate in the South Pacific, the ship had no success in attacking allied ships. Because of coal shortages, it went to Guam where it was interned by the USA. When the USA entered the war in 1917, the ship was scuttled after a fight with American troops on 07.04.1917. (s/s RIASAN; Russian Volonteer Fleet Association, Vladivostok; build 1909.11. by F. Schichau, Danzig; 3.522 grt, 1.962 nrt; 338.0 x 45.0 x 29.7 ft; T.3-cyl. 654 nhp, F. Schichau, Elbing)

The light cruiser Amphion, carried a complement of 290 officers and men. At the outbreak of the First World War the ship was engaged in sweeping operations along the Dutch coast, being in company with the Second Destroyer Flotilla. On the morning at 10.40 the British ships sighted the German steamship, Konigin Luise, engaged in minelaying about 30 miles E. of the Suffolk coast. The Amphion and the destroyers Lance and Landrail immediately brought the Konigin Luise to action and sank her at 12.20 p.m. without loss to themselves. Prior to this the German ship had laid her mines, 200 in number, being of the heavy variety anchored at 11 feet below the surface. The position of these mines was not known accurately to the British and in the course of the day two destroyers, steaming at 30 knots, passed over the minefield in safety. The flotilla continued its operations for the rest of the day with­out incident and in the small hours of August. 6th turned about for home. The course set led the Amphion immediately over the mines laid by the Konigin Luise and at about 6.30 a.m., when all on board thought themselves clear of the danger, the ship struck a mine which exploded below her fore-bridge. The fore part of the cruiser was wrecked and nearly all those in it were killed, including 18 prisoners from the German vessel. Capt. Fox was stunned by the explosion, but recovered consciousness m time to order "Abandon ship". While the boats were being lowered another explosion, caused either by the flames reaching the magazine or by a second mine, completed the Amphion's destruction. The loss of life was one officer and 150 men, and 18 German prisoners. Capt. Fox was among the survivors, who numbered 139 officers and men. (British Navy, light cruiser; 1911; Pembroke Dockyard; 3,440 tons; 385 x 41,5 x 14; 18,000 i.h.p.; 25,4 knots; turbine engines; Yarrow boilers; ten 4 in. guns, four 3 pdr., 2 T. T.)

British steamer City of Winchester, 6,601grt, captured by German light cruiser Konigsberg and scuttled 280 miles E from Aden

British sailing vessel Frau Minna Petersen, 176grt, captured by torpedo boat 5 miles NW from Osterems Port Buoy, taken to Emden.

German submarine U-13 mined and sunk off Heligoland.

German submarine U-15 rammed off Fair Isle by the British cruiser BIRMINGHAM.

One of the best German cruisers, Magdeburg, ran aground in the fog on the reefs off Odensholm Island. The Russian sailors from the Pallada and Bogatyr captured the Magdeburg's commander and 56 crewmen.

Dar-es-Salaam shelled by the British HMS ASTREA and PEGASUS.

Austrian Cruiser ZENTA (1899, 2,300t, 8-12cm). As units of the French Navy continue to escort troop transports from North Africa across to the south of France, the main battlefleet transfers its base to Malta from where the Austrian Fleet can be more easily blockaded in the Adriatic. The French, under Adm Lapeyrère, and accompanied by Adm Troubridge's cruisers, shortly make a sweep into the Adriatic on the lookout for Austrian ships themselves blockading the Montenegran coast. On the 16th, off Antivari, the old protected cruiser Zenta is surprised and sunk in a one hour action with the French battleships. Escorting destroyer Ulan escapes.

British steamer Kaipara, 7,392grt, captured by German auxiliary cruiser Wilhelm der Grosse, 170 miles S by W from Tenerife, sunk by gunfire.

The Dutch steamship Alice H. struck a mine and sank in the Baltic. (Stoomv. Maats. Sophie H.; 1911; Rotterdam Droogdok Maats.; 3,052 tons; 325,3 x 47,3 x 21,8; 249 n.h.p. ; triple-expansion engines.)

Austro-Hungarian, Torpedo Boat Flamingo (TB 26), mined and sunk in the Adriatic.

The battleship HMS Bulwark was destroyed by an internal explosion whilst moored at Sheerness, with the loss of 730 crew. Faulty ammunition was probably to blame.

British cruiser HIGHFLYER sank German commerce raider KAISER WILHELM DER GROSSE.

British steamer Holmwood, 4,223grt, captured by German light cruiser Dresden, 170 miles S ½ W from Cape Santa Marta Grande and sunk by bombs.

The first major naval battle of the First World War was fought, in the Heligoland Bight. The Royal Navy's Harwich Force of light cruisers and destroyers under Commodore Tyrwhitt, supported by submarines under Commodore Keyes, attempted to surprise German patrols off Helgoland. But the Germans only lost one destroyer (V187) before their cruisers arrived on the scene and threatened to turn the tables. The Harwich Force was saved by the appearance of Sir David Beatty's battlecruiser force, which sank three light cruisers, ARIADNE, MAINZ, COLN and drove the rest off.

Russian torpedoboat 272 in collision.

British battleship HMS BELLEROPHON in collision with British steamer ST. CLAIR.

Swedish merchant steamer ST. PAUL, mined and sunk 28 nm. ONO Tyne. The crew was saved by the Norwegian merchant steamer BRUSE which landed them at North Shields. (ST. PAUL; Ångf. AB St. George (Th. Willerding), Gothenburg; build 1906.05 at J. Blumer & Co., Sunderland; 2.534 grt, 1.554 nrt; 310.0 x 44.0 x 20.9 ft; T.3-cyl. 271 nhp build by J. Dickinson & Sons Ltd., Sunderland)

The British torpedo-gunboat SPEEDY mined and sunk in the North Sea [another source says “torpedoed off Humber”].

Japanese, Asakaze class Destroyer Shirotaye, wrecked during battle with the German gunboat Jaguar in Kiao-Chau Bay.

British steamer Maple Branch, 4,338grt, German captured by light cruiser Karslruhe, 250 miles S W ¼ S (true) from St Paul Rocks and sunk by bomb.

HMS PATHFINDER. British Light cruiser torpedoed and sunk out from the Firth of Forth by German submarine U-21.

British steamer Runo, 1,679grt, mined and sunk, about 22 miles E by N from Tyne, 29 lives lost.

OCEANIC. A White Star Liner, built in 1899. She was the first ship to exceed the length of the Great Eastern, at 704 ft overall. After being requistioned on the outbreak of the First World War as an armed merchant cruiser, she was attached to the 10th cruiser squadron of the Royal Navy. On the 8th September, in thick fog, she ran aground on rocks on Foula Island, Shetlands where she became a total loss and was eventually broken up. She had a crew of 400 on board at the time of her accident, all of whom were resqued by the Trawler Glenogil.

Swedish composit steamer TUA Sunk after been in collision with a British Naval ship in the North Sea about 54 miles from Peterhead. 1 crew and 1 passenger killed. (s/s TUA; Ångf. AB Trio (C. L. Larsson), Gothenburg; build 1890 at J. A. Svensson, Södra Garn; 342 grt, 212 nrt; 129.0 x 24.0 x 12.3 ft; C.2-cyl.,21 nhp build by P.Larsson, Thorskog)

British steamer Indus, 3,413grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 240 miles SE by E from Madras and sunk by gunfire.

British steamer Lovat, 6,102grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 260 miles E ½ N from Madras and sunk by gunfire.

German light cruiser HELA torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine E-9 off Heligoland in the North Sea. (Danziger Dampfschiff & Seebad A.G. „Weichsel“, Danzig; build 1910 by J. W. Klawitter, Danzig; 411 grt, 188 nrt; 164.2 x 25.2 x 11.3 ft; T.6-cyl. 79 nhp build by the yard)

British steamer Killin, 3,544grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 410 miles NE by E from Madras and sunk by gunfire.

The Australian submarine AE-1 believed to have accidentally founderedin the Pacific.

At the outbreak of World War I, the German Cap Trafalgar was interned in Buenos Aires. Being able to leave Argentina, the ship meet with the old gun boat Eber at the island of Trinidad, where it was equipped with the guns of the non-combat ready gunboat until 31.08.1914. After an unsuccessful two week raid in the South Atlantic, the ship returned to the island to resupply, but was surprised by the British auxiliary cruiser Carmania (former British liner) . Being much better armed as the German ship, the Cap Trafalgar was sunk in an one hour battle.

British steamer Trabboch, 4,028grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 70 miles SW by S from Pilots Lt, Mouth of Hooghli and sunk by gunfire.

British steamer Highland Hope, 5,150grt, captured by German light cruiser Karslruhe 190 miles SW ½ W from St Paul Rocks and scuttled.

British steamer Indrani, 5,706grt, captured by German light cruiser Karslruhe 145 miles N by W (true) from Cape St Roque, and scuttled

The British light cruiser PEGASUS driven ashore after being disabled by gun-fire of German light cruiser Konigsberg off Zanzibar.

The British armoured cruiser  HMS ABOUKIR was torpedoed by the German submarine U-9, as she patrolled without cruiser protection off the Dutch coast. Suspecting a mine rather than a submarine because there was no indication of any enemy activity, the armoured cruiser CRESSY and the HOGUE came to the aid of the survivors, but they too were torpedoed by the same U-boat almost immediately. All three were lost, with just over 800 being saved.

British steamer Rio Iguassu, 3,817grt, captured by German light cruiser Karslruhe, 155 miles SW ½ Wfrom St Paul Rocks and sunk by bombs.

British steamer King Lud, 3,650grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 25 miles SSW from Point de Galle and sunk by bombs.

British steamer Bankfields, 3,763grt, captured by German light cruiser Leipzig, in Gulf of Guayaquil and sunk by gunfire.

British steamer Buresk, 4,337grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 180 miles W by N ¾ N from Colombo, sunk by HMAS Sydney on 9th Nov 1914

British steamer Foyle, 4,147grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden 300 miles W ¾ N from Colombo, and scuttled.

Austrian-Hungarian monitors Temes (I), Körös, the auxiliary mine sweeper Andor, and patrol boat b, coming from the Danube, broke through a Serbian mine barrage and entered the Save River, despite heavy shelling.

German light cruiser CORMORAN and torpedoboat TAKU scuttled at Tsing Tao.

German gunboat ILTIS and LUCHS scuttled in Tsing Tao.

German torpedoboat T 50 foundered in the Baltic Sea.

French gunboat ZELEE scuttled.

The Turkish steamer MERSIN hits one of the newly laid mines off Canakkale and has to be beached. (Administr. De Nav. A Vap. Ottomane, Constantinople, Turkey; build 1899.02. by J. Duthie & Co., Montrose; 361 grt, 195 nrt; 130.5 x 25.0 x 11.4 ft; C.2-cyl. 52 nhp build by Hall-Brown, Buttery & Co., Glasgow)

Swedish steamer GERTRUD grounded on Scroby Sand off Yarmouth. The steamer was refloated later the same day. (Ex: MAUD HARTMAN; Ångf. AB Nordsjön (A. Bratt & Co), Gothenburg; build 1881.07 by Schlesinger Davis & Co., Newcastle; 1.619 grt, 983 nrt; 260.2 x 35.2 x 20.9 ft; C.2-cyl. 187 nhp, build by T. Clark & Co., Newcastle)

British steamer Dawdon, 1,310grt, mined and sunk, 10 miles NW by W from Wandelaar LV, 10 lives lost

British steamer Ardmount, 3,510grt, mined and sunk 3 miles E by S ½ S from Wandelaar LV,

German destroyer S13, had internal explosion in the North Sea and sunk.

British submarine E.9 sank a German submarine off Ems.

British steamer Niceto de Larrinaga, 5,018grt, captured by German light cruiser Karslruhe, 100 miles S by W ¼ W from St Paul Rocks, and sunk by bombs

Swedish steamer KARIN, stranded at Örnahusen on voyage Landskrona - Karlshamn in barlast and was a total wreck. Master on board was Captain Augustinos Adamson (ex: ELLIDA (F.M. Bruhn, Flensburg); A. K. Fernström, Sternö; build 1883 by Eriksbergs M.V. AB, Gothenburg; 559 grt, 295 nrt; 168.1 x 25.2 x 13.4 ft; C.2-cyl. 61 nhp build by the yard)

Russian armoured cruiser PALLADA (1911, 7,800t, 2-20.3cm). Three German U-boats have been sent to patrol the waters off the Gulf of Finland. The Russians are also patrolling the area using unescorted cruisers, and apparently unaware of the hard lessons the Royal Navy is learning about the danger from submarines. Armoured cruiser Pallada is hit by a single torpedo from U-26, her magazines exploded and the entire crew of 600 men killed.

British steamer Condor, 3,053grt, captured by German light cruiser Karslruhe 215 miles N by E ¾ E from Cape St Roque, and scuttled

British destroyer Lance, Lennox, Legion and Loyal with flotilla leader, light cruiser Undaunted sank German torpedo boats S 115, S 117, S 118 and S 119 off Texel

British steamer Clan Grant, 3,948grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 150 miles W ¼ S from Minikoi, and sunk by gunfire

British steamer Benmohr, 4,806grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden 65 miles NW ½ W from Minikoi, and scuttled.

Japanese former protected cruiser TAKACHIHO, now minelayer, was torpedoed and sunk by the German destroyer S 90 while taking part in the attack on Tsing Tao.

German destroyer S 90 wrecked on China coast.

British destroyers and cruiser sink the German torpedo boat destroyers T 115, T 117, T 118 and T 119. The four torpedo boats were making a mine laying raid on the mouth of the River Thames when they were intercepted by the British cruiser Undaunted and the destroyers Lance, Lennox, Legion and Loyal in the North Sea.  The British force overwhelmed the German torpedo boats in about 1.5 hours of firing and only 36 crew were saved.

The British submarine E.3 sunk by German destroyers near Heligoland.

The British submarine E.5 sunk in the North Sea.

British steamer Troilus, 7,562grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 170 miles E from Minikoi, and sunk by gunfire

British steamer Glanton, 3,021grt, captured by German light cruiser Karslruhe, 195 miles SW from St Paul Rocks, and sunk by bomb

French steamer VOSGES,  wrecked after striking submerged object at Ponta Negra, 20 miles off Les Chatz Point, Isle de Groia on voyage Cardiff- Rio de Janeiro with a cargo of coal. (Cie. De Nav. dÓrbigny (A. Capelle) La Rochelle; build 1909 by Bartram & Sons, Sunderland #214; 3.834 grt, 2.490 nrt; 346.5 x 50.8 x 23.2 ft; T.3-cyl. 308 nhp. Build by J. Dickinson & Sons Ltd., Sunderland)

British steamer Chilkana, 3,244grt, captured by German light cruiser Emden, 110 miles ENE from Minikoi, and sunk by gunfire

British steamer Glitra Captured and scuttled in the North Sea 14 miles W.S.W.from Skudesnes by the German submarine U-17 whilst on a voyage from Grangemouth to Stavanger with a cargo of coal. She was the first British merchant vessel to be sunk by submarine in the WW I. (Christian Salvesen & Co, Leith, ex: Saxon Prince, built 1881, 866 grt.)

The Persian steamer SHIRAZ hits a mine near the second barrage in the Bosporus and sinks near Rumelihisari. (785 grt / 1867)

British steamer Cormorant, 1,595grt, mined and sunk 4 miles E from West Gabbard LV.

The Swedish steamship Alice struck a mine and sank in the North Sea on a voyage London – Gothenburg with a cargo of coal. (Angf. AB Jernborden; 1883; R. Dixon & Co.; 1,461 tons; 250 x 36 x 17,5; 145 n.h.p.; compound engines.)

Austrian-Hungarian monitor Temes (I) sank after hitting a mine in the Save. The ship was salvaged some time later, repaired and re-commissioned at Budapest on April 23, 1917.

British steamer Hurstdale, 2,752grt, captured by German light cruiser Karslruhe 205 miles SW ¼ W from St, Paul Rocks, and scuttled

Belgian steamer MARIE HENRIETTE  ran ashore on Sands "Les Casquets" off Barfleur during the night. Lights and beacons having been shut and captain Rombouts not advised of this. Was used as hospital ship for the casualties of the Yser Battle. (1525 grt/1892, built by J. Cockerill, Hoboken and owned by Belgian State Line, Ostend)

British destroyer BADGER sank a German submarine off Dutch coast.

The French liner Amiral Ganteaume left Ostend for Havre with 2,000 Belgian refugees. On October 26th, 1914, she called at Calais and on the same day, when off Cap Gris Nez, was torpedoed without warning by the submarine U-24. Fortunately the liner did not sink and most of her 2,000 passengers were trans­ferred to the South Eastern & Chatham Railway Co.'s steamship Queen, 1,650 tons. The Amiral Ganteaume was then taken in tow and brought safely to Boulogne. Thirty of the refugees, who were mostly women and children, lost their lives. (Chargeurs Reunis; 1902; Napier & Miller; 4,590 tons; 385 X 50 x 25,7; 2,200 i.h.p.; 10 knots; triple-expansion engines.)

British steamer Vandyk, 10,328grt, captured by German light cruiser Karlsruhe, 690 miles W by S from St Paul Rocks, not known how sunk

British battleship HMS AUDACIOUS struck a mine off North Irish Coast near Loch Swilly and sank after unsuccessful towing attempts. The minefield had been laid down by the German auxiliary cruiser BERLIN.

British steamer Manchester Commerce, 5,363grt, mined and sunk, 20 miles N ¼ E from Tory Island, 14 lives lost including Master

Royal Navy destroyer flotilla sank four German torpedo boats off the Texel.

German steamer MICHAEL JEBSEN scuttled at Tsingtao (Qingdao) with Ellen Rickmers and Dorendart. MICHAEL JEBSEN was raised by the Japanese in 1915, commissioned as transport Koshu. From 1922 became an icebreaker and survey vessel. Deleted from the active list in 1939. (built by Howaldtswerke, Kiel, 1904-1905 for Michael Jebsen Apenrade; 1521 tgr, 2080 ts displacement, dimensions: 76,96 x 10.97 x 3,71.)

Swedish steamer BLANKA on voyage Umeå - Hull with a cargo of wood, grounded and wrecked at Rattray Head on the Scottish eastcoast. (ex: Mersario; Ångf. AB Småland (T. Linnell), Oskarshamn; off.no: 4229; build 1889 by Tyne I.S.B. Co. Ltd., Newcastle; 1.417 grt, 846 nrt; 245.5 x 35.0 x 1.53 ft; T.3-cyl. 138 nhp build by Hawtorn & Co., Leith)

Turkish/German attack on the Russian Fleet - Sailing on the 27th, the few seaworthy ships of the mixed Turkish/German fleet under the command of Adm Souchon, sail across the Black Sea to attack Russian bases without any declaration of war. Early on the 29th, Turkish destroyer GAIRET attack Odessa sinking the Russian gunboat DONETZ (or Donec, 1890, 1,200t, 2-15.2cm, later raised) and other shipping. Goeben shells Sevastopol in the Crimea, and according to Russian sources was damaged by the return fire of the shore batteries. Shortly she encounters the laden Russian minelayer PRUT (or "Pruth", 1879, 5,400t, c800 mines), which apparently scuttles herself under fire. Turkish cruiser Hamidiye shells Feodosia, also in the Crimea, while the Breslau and a Turkish cruiser bombard Novorossisk further east. Various minelaying operations, typical of both the Baltic and Black Sea theatres, accompany the attacks.

German gunboat TIGER scuttled in Tsing Tao.

Rohilla. Hospital ship, en-route from Leith, Scotland to Dunkirk in Belgium. Built for the British India Line in 1906 by Harland and Wolff, Belfast, and intended to have been a passenger and cruise liner, she was of 7,144 gross tonnage and prior to her hospital ship role she had been used as a troop transport between Southampton, England and Karachi, India. At around 4.00 am she ran aground at Saltwick Nab, just to the east of the entrance to Whitby Harbour, Yorkshire, with 229 people on board. She may have struck a mine but the weather was very bad at the time and this may have been the cause. Her back was broken and although three lifeboats went to her aid the extreme weather made early rescue of passengers impossible. Eventually however 143 were saved, including 60 who got ashore. The Master of the ship Captain Neilson was among those who survived, along with the entire complement of nurses. Fortunately she was on her way to collect wounded and none were on board when she was wrecked.

Swedish steamer TORGRIM, stranded and wrecked at Rattary Head, Scottish east coast. (Rederi AB Perciwal (A.H.S. Person), Landskrona).

The British light cruiser HERMES converted to Seaplane Carrier. Torpedoed by German submarine U27 whilst acting as an aircraft transport between Dover and France. First torpedo struck from a range of c.300 yards and as the cruiser was sinking by the stern a second torpedo hit her and she then sank quickly.

British steel barque Inverurie. From Belfast to Sydney, wrecked near Bally Ferris Point, Antrim, on the east coast of Ireland, November 1914. (1417 tons. Built by Hall of Aberdeen, 1889 for Inver Line, owned by G. Milne & Co.of Aberdeen. Lbd 242.2 x 37.1 x 21.6 ft.)

The British WOLVERINE and SCORPION enter the Gulf of Izmir and sink the Turkish survey vessel BEYRUT off Urla and the Turkish steamer KINAHADA (297 grt / 1883). The crew of both ships aregiven time to abandone before the vessels are sunk by gunfire.

Belgian steamer ELLA  captured by the Turks in Eumer Fahri and renamed DJEHOUN. 7/6 1915 Torpedoed and sunk by British submarine E 11 off Mouss Yatiki (Sea of Marmara) (3510 grt/1890, built by Caird & C^o Ltd, Greenock and owned by R. Contean & M. Gumuchdjian, Constantinople, Belgian flag)

HM Submarine D-5 mined off Yarmouth by mine thrown out by German warship

Bombardment of Dardanelles by Anglo-French squadron.

German heavy cruiser YORCK accidentally ran into two German mines in the Jade estuary with 336 killed.

German light cruiser KARLSRUHE destroyed by internal explosion, 200 miles E of Trinidad.

Norwegian steamer Drammen was a small cargo vessel which sank west of Steilene on the west side of Nesoddlandet in Akershus county after a collision with the French steamship Union III with a cargo of beer, wine and other goods. (UNION III; Cie. Mar. L´Union Belliloise, Palais, France; build 1898 by A. Blasse, Nantes; 155 grt; 98.8 x 20.0 x 8.4 ft; C.2-cyl. 36 nhp build by J. Jones & Sons, Liverpool)

German torpedoboat T 25 sunk after being in collision with T 72 in the North Sea.

German large torpedoboat S 13 sunk by accident in the North Sea after having a torpedo explosion.

Australian cruiser SYDNEY sank German cruise EMDEN off Cocos Keeling Islands.

Swedish steamer ATLE, Goteborg, mined and sunk about 7 miles. SO t. O from Cross Sands lightship, on avoyage London - Goteborg. 6 men killed. (Owner: Ångf. AB Thule)

British steamer TURRET CHIEF ashore near Keweenaw Point, Lake Superior when on a voyage Midland, Ontario – Fort William in barlast. Refloated in May 1915, declared as a total loss and sold to Turret Chief  Ltd, Canada and repaired.

The german cruiser EMDEN destroyed at Cocos-Keeling Island after action with Australian cruiser SYDNEY.

The British torpedo-gunboat NIGER torpedoed and sunk off Deal by unknown German submarine.

British auxiliary cruiser ORAMA sank supply ship of German raider.

The Swedish steamship ANDREA, struck a mine and sank in the North Sea when on voyage Törefors - Hull with a cargo of wood. (Angf. AB Libra; 1883; J. Readhead & Co.; 1,412 tons; 249 x 36 x 17,5 ft; 139 n.h.p. ; compound engines.)

British steamer North Wales, 3,661grt, captured by German light cruiser Dresden, 360 miles SW ¼ W from Valparaiso, and sunk by bombs

German cruiser FRIEDRICH CARL (1903, 9,700t, 4-21cm). On her way to bombard Libau, armoured cruiser Friedrich Carl, serving as a coastal defence ship, sinks on two mines in a Russian field laid by destroyers, west-southwest of Memel (54.41N, 20.11E). All except 8 members of the crew are rescued. The shelling of Libau by other cruisers goes ahead.

Russian battleship Evstafi. Goeben and Breslau encounter the Russians off Cape Sarych, Crimea. Although outnumbered, they are soon in action. Goeben is hit once, but in return badly damages the Russian flagship, the four-year old Evstafi.

German Hilfskreuzer C., because of coal shortages, the ship sailed to Trondheim where it was interned on 18.11.1914. Sold to Britain in 1920, it was renamed to Arabic and used until 1931 when it was scrapped in Italy. (The passenger ship Berlin was commissioned as Hilfskreuzer C in September 1914. It was first planned to send the ship into the Atlantic, but because of its slow speed, this plan was abandoned. Instead, the ship was used to lay a mine filed off Glasgow and attack merchant shipping in the Barents Sea. Two ships, a post ship and the new battleship Audacious were sunk my the mines laid by the Berlin).

Icebreaker HMCS Earl Grey sold to Russia for service at Archangel. Successively renamed Kanada III, International in 1920, & Fedor Litke in 1923. In 1923 she worked in the Baltic, in 1925-1928 in the Sea of Azov & in 1929-34 out of Vladivostok. She then returned to Murmansk via the Arctic route. In 1936 she made the trip back again to Vladivostok via the northern route, but spent WW II years working out of Archangel & Murmansk. In 1955 she sailed to within 400 NM of the North Pole, the closest a surface vessel had then come to the pole.

British steamer Malachite, 718grt, captured by submarine, 4 miles N by W from Cape la Hève, and sunk by gunfire

The British battleship BULWARK. Exploded whilst lying at anchor at Sheerness with only 12 survivors.  During that day she had been taking on board ammunition and it was thought that the shells had been stacked too close together and too close to a boiler room which caused some of them to ignite and cause a magazine explosion.

British steamer Primo, 1,366grt, captured by submarine, 6 miles NW by N from Cape Antifer, and sunk by gunfire

German large torpedo boat S 124 (1904, 470t, 3-5cm, 3-45cm tt) sinks in collision with Danish steamer Anglodane off the German Baltic coast (55.22N, 12.11E). She was salvaged, and broken up at Kiel in 1915.

Turkish ironclad MESSUDIEH moored as a stationary guardship in the Dardanelles off Charnak, was torpedoed and sunk by the British submarine B-11.

Swedish steamer CARMA disapered in the North Sea with 14 men  and 1 woman whilst on voyage Amsterdam - Blyth in barlast. (ex: Paola; Otto Banck, Helsingborg; build 1882.02. by S. P. Austin & Sons, Sunderland; 1.035 grt, 609 nrt; 219.8 x 32.2 x 14.7 ft; C.2-cyl. 131 nhp, build by G. Clark, Sunderland)

British sailing vessel Drummuir, 1,844grt, captured by German light cruiser Leipzig, 70 miles E by N from Cape Horn, and sunk by bombs

Swedish steamer EVERILDA mined and sunk about 6 - 7 miles SW Mäntyluoto whilst on a voyage Stockholm - Mäntyluoto. 10 men and 2 women lost. (Rederi AB Hyperion (A. L. Nilsson), Helsingborg; Off.no: 3258; build 1882.04 by T. Turnbull & Son, Whitby; 1.366 grt, 839 nrt; 243.0 x 34.0 x 17.9 ft; C.2-cyl. 156 nhp build by T. Richardson & Sons, Hartlepool)

Swedish passenger steamer LUNA mined and sunk about 6 - 7 miles SW Mäntyluoto while on a voyage Mäntyluoto - Stockholm, after she had rescued 6 survivors from EVERILDA of which 5 was killed at LUNA:s mining. The crew from LUNA and one survivor from EVERILDA was rescued by a Finnish tug. (Stockholms Rederi AB Svea, Stockholm; build 1905 at Fredrikstad M.V., Fredrikstad; 982 grt, 590 nrt; 216.5 x 32.7 x 13.9 ft; T.3-cyl. 126 nhp build by the yard; Off.no 4452)

Swedish steamer EMMA grounded and wrecked at the British eastcoast. (ex: Johannes Brun; Ångf. AB Emma, Gävle; build 1883.08. by Martens, Olsen & Co., Bergen; 665 grt, 382 nrt; 176.6 x 28.1 x 12.4 ft; C.2-cyl, 74 nhp build by the yard; Off.no: 4994)

German submarine U-11 mined and sunk in the Dover Straits.

Russian destroyers ISPOLNITELNI and LETUCHI (1906, 400t, 2-45.7cm tt). The two Lovki class destroyers are lost in a snow storm off Odensholm during a planned minelaying operation southwest of Libau. Ispolnitelni sinks after one of her own mines explodes, and Letuchi capsizes trying to rescue the crew. Few if any men survive from the two ships.

British sailing vessel Kildalton, 1,784grt, captured by German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, 870 miles SW ¾ S from Valparaiso, and sunk by bombs.

Turkish armoured ship MESUDIYE (MESSUDIEH) (1876, 9,200t, 12-15.2cm secondary only). In the face of strong currents, minefields, coastal batteries, and patrols, the small, old British submarine B-11 (Lt Holbrook), makes the first penetration of the Dardanelles reaching almost as far as Chanak, 15 miles in. The ancient Mesudiye moored as a stationery guard ship, is sighted and sunk with one 18 in torpedo. Under fire, B-11 returns and safely reaches the open sea.

German warships bombarded Hartlepool, Scarborough and Whitby, inflicting considerable civilian casualties.

British steamer Elterwater, 1,228grt, mined and sunk, 3 miles E from Scarborough, 6 lives lost

German submarine U-5 mined and sunk in the English Channel.

French dreadnought JEAN BART, damaged in southern Adriatic Sea in Strait of Otranto - torpedoed once by Austrian U-12. As the French battlefleet was carrying out a sweep into the Adriatic covering the transport of supplies to Montenegro, they experienced the power of the submarine to influence surface ship strategy and tactics. Adm Lapeyrère’s unscreened flagship Jean Bart was hit in the bow by a torpedo, reportedly abreast the wine-store and just before the forward magazine which remained intact. Although she stayed afloat and reached Malta safely, the French blockade of the Adriatic was moved south of the Otranto Straits and thus became more distant. Some sources, even recently published ones, describe Jean Bart as sunk in this attack.

Norwegian steamer Lyra sank after she stranded on Flateguri, just outside Hankø in Østfold county. Lyra was on a journey from Wallsend On Tyne to Kristiania ( Oslo ). Norsk Bjergningskompani saved the cargo and other things and  their own boat Trold was lost during this work. Lyra had a crew of fifteen men and was loaded with 1600 tons of coal. (ex: Glen Dochart; A/S Lyra (C.T. Gogstad & Co), Christiania; build 1882 at Schlesinger Davis & Co, Newcastle; 1.189 grt, 744 nrt; 236.0 x 32.2 x 18.1 ft; C.2-cyl. 140 nhp build by Hawks, Crawshy & Sons)

British steamer Gem, 461grt, mined and sunk, 3 ½ miles SE by E ¼ E from Scarborough, 10 lives lost including Master.

British steamer Linaria, 3,081grt, mined and sunk 2 ½ miles NNE from Filey.

British destroyer SUCCESS, ran aground and wrecked at Scottish North Sea coast, off Fife Ness at northern entrance to Firth of Forth (56.15’N, 02.30’W). Like many of the old, small destroyers, Success spent the first month's of the war on often solitary North Sea patrol, presumably serving with the Forth-based 8th Flotilla, on the lookout for German minelayers and raids on the British East Coast. She was the Royal Navy’s first destroyer loss of the Great War.

British battleship HMS CONQUEROR in collision with the British battleship HMS MONARCH

H.M.S FOX and GOLIATH bombard Dar-es-Salaam.

The British submarine C.31 lost of the Belgian coast.

British battleship HMS AUSTRALIA sinks German steamer ELEONORE WOERMANN near Falkland Island.

USS submarine C-1 (SS 9) Grounded in Almaranti Bay.

The Turkish gunboat HIZIR REIS hits a mine near the third barrage while returning from patrol. The boat is seriously damaged forward and is towed to Istinye for docking and inspection. Repairs prove difficult and the boat is not returned to service until the middle of the year.

British steamer Potaro, 4,419grt, captured by auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm 560 miles E by N ¼ N from Pernambuco, and scuttled

ROEBUCK. Formerly on the Channel Islands service, she was taken over for government service after the outbreak of war and renamed HMS Roedene under which name while at Scapa Flow on January 13th she dragged her anchor and fell across the bows of the battleship HMS Imperieuse, after which she sank. (Roebuck; Great Western Railway Co, Milford; build 1897 by Naval Con. & Arm. Co. Ltd., Barrow; 1.186 grt, 303 nrt; 280.0 x 34.5 x 16.8 ft; T.6-cyl. 643 nhp build by the yard).

HMS VIKNOR was lost off Tory Island in heavy weather in an area recently mined by the Germans. She was requisitioned by the Royal Navy as an Armed Merchant Cruiser. She was part of the 10th. Cruiser Squadron blockading the seas between the North of Scotland and Iceland. (She was a 5386 Ton Blue Star Line ship, formerly the Viking.)

British steamer Highland Brae, 7,634grt, captured by German auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm 630 miles NE by E ¼ E from Pernambuco, and scuttled

British sailing vessel Wilfrid M, 251grt, captured by German auxiliary cruiser Kronprinz Wilhelm 625 miles NE by E ¼ E from Pernambuco, and attempted to sink by ramming

French submarine SAPHIR (Q 44) ran aground at Turkish waters in the Dardanelles Narrows, off Nagara Point, gunned by Turkish shore batteries and scuttled by her officers.. A month after British submarine B.11 reached almost as far as Chanak in the Dardanelles and sank guardship Mesudiye, Saphir was the first to try to break right through to the Sea of Marmara. She passed Chanak and got as far as Nagara Point against the fierce currents and after passing under ten lines of mines before her luck ran out. At this point, sources vary. She probably ran aground trying to avoid the minefields, surfaced and and was either scuttled or destroyed by shore batteries. In some sources she was mined. Many of her crew were lost, reportedly 14 men killed and 13 survivors. (Other sources date her loss on the 17th January 1915).

USS submarine E-2 (SS-23) Battery explosion.

The British submarine E.10 lost in the North Sea.

Naval action in Dardanelles as a result of which the British monitors RAGLAN and M.28 were sunk and German cruisers GOEBEN and BRESLAU were mined. BRESLAU was beached.

German submarine U-7 torpedoed in error by the German submarine U-22 in the North Sea.

British steamer Durward, 1,301grt, captured by a German submarine, 22 miles NW from Maas LV and sunk by bombs.

Swedish steamer DROTT mined and sunk in the Bay of Finland. 5 men lost. The 13 survivers rescued by Swedish steamer BIRGIT. (ex: Raleigh, ex: Marzo; Rederibolaget Drott (E. Brodin), Gefle; build 1881.08. by Caird<& Purdie, Barrow; 1.286 grt, 747 nrt; 244.4 x 34.1 x 15.2 ft; C.2-cyl. 146 nhp build by Westray Copeland & Co., Barrow; Off.no: 1260).

The capital warships of the British Grand Fleet and the German High Seas Fleet clashed for the first time in the First World War at the Dogger Bank in the North Sea. Vice Admiral Franz Von Hipper led out the battlecruisers of his First Scouting Group (Derfflinger, Seydlitz, and Moltke) to attempt another bombardment of British coastal towns. However, the battlecruiser Von der Tann was not available, having damaged herself in a collision whilst taking evasive action during the Royal Naval Air Service's pioneering air raid on Cuxhaven on Christmas Day 1914. Hipper therefore took with his force the powerful armored cruiser Blucher as a substitute. Vice Admiral Sir David Beatty with his Battlecruiser Force - Lion, Tiger, Princess Royal, New Zealand and Indomitable, successfully intercepted his force. Hipper prudently turned to withdraw, but Blucher's inferior speed allowed the British battlecruisers to close the gap. During the exchange of fire, Blucher took serious hits and Seydlitz came close to blowing up when a catastrophic ammunition fire destroyed both her stern gun turrets. Hipper was forced to abandon Blucher to her fate and run. However, Beatty's flagship HMS Lion had also been badly hit, and forced to withdraw from the fight. Badly phrased signals from Beatty (a serious failing he was to repeat at Jutland), and poor initiative on the part of the next most senior admiral, led to the other Royal Navy battlecruisers concentrating their efforts against the mortally damaged Blucher rather than pursuing Hipper. Thus although a tactical victory for the Royal Navy, Dogger Bank was mainly regarded by contemporaries as a missed opportunity.

The Russian minelaying offensive continues to take a toll of German warships and merchantmen. German light cruiser Augsburg and the older Gazelle are damaged in separate cruiser-laid minefields near the Danish island of Bornholm on the night of the 24th/25th.

Battle of Dogger Bank with loss of German cruiser BLÜCHER.

American steel 4-mast schooner William P. Frye captured by German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich (commerce raider) in South Atlantic, southeast of Brazil. Sunk January 28, 1915; no casualties. (A. Sewall & Co., Bath, Me., USA; build 1901 by A. Sewall & Co.; 3.374 grt, 666 nrt; 332.4 x 45.4 x 26.2 ft)

British steamer Ben Cruachan, 3,092grt, captured by a German submarine, 15 miles NW from Morecambe Lt, and sunk by bombs

British steamer Ikaria, 4,335grt, torpedoed without warning by a German submarine 25 miles NW from Havre, and sunk.

Bombardment of Smyrna by the Anglo-French fleet.

British destroyer HMS ERNE, aground and wrecked at Scottish North Sea coast, on Rattray Head, NE Aberdeenshire (c 57.40’N, 01.50’W). A severe easterly gale drove Erne (and two other vessels) ashore in this area; reportedly there was no loss of life from her approximate crew of 70.

Turkish merchant steamer WASHINGTON (782 grt) (ex: american) sunk at Trapzond by the Russian cruiser KAGUL and PAMIAT MERKURIIA.

Russian armoured cruiser RURIK badly damaged by grounding in the Baltic, she was later refloated and repaired.

German large torpedoboat V 25 mined and sunk in the North Sea, killing 79 crew.

Belgian steamer MORINIER capsized and foundered in pos. 47^.01'N-07^°48'W (Bay of Biscay) in heavy weather when o/v Cardiff - Lisboa with coal. Portuguese trawler VASCO DE GAMA rescued Capt. Van den Bogaert and 5 crew members. The captain's wife and 16 crew members were lost.  (1874 grt/1909 built by Short Bros Ltd, Sunderland, owned by Antwerpsche Zeevaartmij (SA de Commerce & de Navigation mgrs), Antwerp, Belgium)

Sailing from Liverpool to W. Africa with a general cargo, the British steamship ABEOKUTA foundered in the Bay of Biscay. (Elder Dempster; 1901; R. Duncan & Co.; 1,817 tons; 280 - 2 x 40-1x]8-2; 199 n.h.p. ; triple-expansion engines.)

British steamer Dulwich, 3,289grt, torpedoed without warning by a German submarine 27 miles NNE from Cape la Hève, and sunk, 2 lives lost

German light cruiser BREMEN mined and sunk in the Baltic.

Swedish steamer A. WICANDER grounded at Stengrundet off Landskrona, Sweden at 18:45, the weather was strong breeze from south and hazy. She was refloated the day after by the Danish salvagesteamer E. SWITZER. The grounding had never occured if the lighthouse not have been extinguished beacuse of the war. (Stockholms Rederi AB Svea, Stockholm, Sweden; build 1891 by Motala Co., Gothenburg; 928 grt, 559 nrt; 201.5 x 29.6 x 15.4 ft; T.3-cyl. 118 nhp build by the yard; Off.no: 2685).

British destroyer GOLDFINCH was wrecked in fog on Sanay Island, Orkneys, during the night of the 18^th – 19^th.

British steamer Mary Ada Short, 3,605grt, captured by German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, 400 miles E by N ¾ N from Pernambuco, and sunk by bombs

British destroyer GOLDFINCH, ran aground in North Sea, on Sandoy Island in the Orkneys. Serving with the Grand Fleet. Ran ashore in fog and wrecked; casualties not known, normal complement 72 officers and men.

German large torpedoboat S 14 sunk after internal explosion, in Jade. She was raised the same year and scrapped in Wilhelmshaven.

Naval attack on Dardanelles.

British steamer Willerby, 3,630grt, captured by German auxiliary cruiser Prinz Eitel Friedrich, 490 miles NE by N from Pernambuco, and sunk by bombs

British steamer Cambank, 3,112grt, torpedoed without warning by a German submarine 10 miles E from Point Lynas, and sunk, 4 lives lost

American steamer CARIB sunk by mine in the North Sea; 3 killed. (ex: Kimon, ex: President Garfield; Clyde S.S. Co., New York; build 1882.01 by W. Hamilton & Co., Port Glasgow; 2.087 grt, 1.280 nrt; 288.4 x 36.2 x 22.4 ft; C.2-cyl. 241 nhp build by Dunsmuir &  Jackson, Glasgow).

British steamer Oakby, 1,976grt, torpedoed without warning by a German submarine 4 miles E by N from Royal Sovereign LV, and sunk.

British steamer Branksome Chine, 2,026grt, torpedoed without warning by a German submarine 6 miles E by S ¾ S from Beachy Head, and sunk.

French destroyer DAGUE sunk after hitting a drifting mine in southern Adriatic Sea in Antivari Roads laid by the German submarine UC 25. Dague, on duty off the port of Antivari through which Allied supplies passed for Montenegro, was the first French warship lost in the Adriatic.

British steamer Rio Parana, 4,015grt, torpedoed without warning by a German submarine 4 miles SE from Beachy Head, and sunk

British steamer Deptford, 1,208grt, mined and sunk, 3 miles off Scarborough, 1 lives lost

Afric. Lugger, 12 tons. Foundered off Croker Island, NT, in a cyclone.