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red cruiser) 13,550 704 Black Prince (armored cruiser) 13,550 704 Tipperary (destroyer) 1,850 150 Turbulent (destroyer) 1,850 150 Shark (destroyer) 950 100 Sparrowhawk (destroyer) 950 100 Ardent (destroyer) 950 100 Fortune (destroyer) 950 100 Nomad (destroyer) 950 100 Nestor (destroyer) 950 100 BRITISH TOTALS Battle cruisers 63,000 2,550 Armored cruisers 41,700 2,163 Destroyers 9,400 900 -------- ------ Fourteen ships 114,100 5,613 ADMITTED LOSSES--GERMAN* NAME TONNAGE PERSONNEL Lutzow (battle cruiser) 26,600 1,200 Pommern (battleship) 13,200 729 Wiesbaden (cruiser) 5,600 450 Frauenlob (cruiser) 2,715 264 Elbing (cruiser) 5,000 450 Rostock (cruiser) 4,900 373 Five destroyers 5,000 500 GERMAN TOTALS Battle cruisers 39,800 1,929 Cruisers 18,215 1,537 Destroyers 5,000 500 ------ ----- Eleven ships 63,015 3,966 * These figures are given for what they are worth, but no one outside of Germany doubted but that their losses were very much greater than admitted in the official report. TOTAL LOSSES OF MEN BRITISH Dead or missing. 6,104 Wounded 513 ------- Total 6,617 GERMAN Dead or missing 2,414 Wounded 449 ------- Total 2,863 LOSS IN MONEY VALUE (Rough Estimate) British $115,000,000 German $63,000,000 ---------------- Total $178,000,000 While the world was still puzzling over the conflicting reports of the Battle of Jutland came the shocking news that Field Marshal Lord Horatio Herbert Kitchener, the British Secretary of State for War, had perished off the West Orkney Islands on June 5th, through the sinking of the British cruiser Hampshire. The entire crew was also lost, except twelve men, a warrant officer and eleven seamen, who escaped on a raft. Earl Kitchener was on his way to Russia, at the request
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