the surface of the water and permitted
no one at the fort to see the wake of the _U-51's_ periscope. Once
inside the Mediterranean he headed for the south of Greece, escaping
attack from a French destroyer and proceeding through the AEgean Sea to
the Dardanelles. The journey ended on the 25th of May, just one month
after leaving Wilhelmshaven.

The British ships _Triumph_ and _Majestic_ were sighted early in the
morning, but attack upon them was difficult on account of the
destroyers which circled about them; one of the destroyers passed
right over the _U-51_ while she was submerged. Captain Hersing brought
her to the surface soon afterward and let go the torpedo which sank
the _Triumph_. For the next two days the submarine lay submerged, but
came up on the following day and found itself right in the midst of
the allied fleet. This time the _Majestic_ was taken as the target for
a torpedo and she went down. Again submerging his vessel Captain
Hersing kept it down for another day, and when he again came to the
surface he saw that the fleets had moved away. He then returned to
Constantinople.

On the 23d of June, 1915, the British cruiser _Roxborough_, an older
ship, was hit by a torpedo fired by a German submarine in the North
Sea, but the damage inflicted was not enough to prevent her from
making port under her own steam.

The deaths of a number of Americans occurred on the 28th of June,
1915, when the Leyland liner _Armenian_, carrying horses for the
allied armies, was torpedoed by the _U-38_, twenty miles west by north
of Trevose Head in Cornwall. According to the story of the captain of
the vessel, the submarine fired two shots to signal him to stop. When
he put on all speed in an attempt to get away from the raider her guns
opened on his ship with shrapnel, badly riddling it. She had caught
fire and was burning in three places before he signaled that he would
surrender. Thirteen men had meanwhile been killed by the shrapnel.
Some of the lifeboats had also been riddled by the firing from the
submarine's deck guns, making it more difficult for the crew to leave
the ship. The German commander gave him ample time to get his boats
off.

To offset the advantage which the Germans had with their submarines
the British admiralty commissioned ten such craft during the week of
June 28, 1915. These vessels were of American build and design and
were assembled in Canada. During the week mentioned they were manned
by men se