enemy about, her commander brought the rest of
her out of the water. She had not emerged many moments before the
Austrian vessel also came up for a look around and the commander
of the latter espied the Italian submarine through his periscope.
He immediately ordered a torpedo fired; it found a mark in the
hull of the _Medusa_ and she was sent to the bottom. One of her
officers and four of her men were rescued by the Austrian submarine
and made prisoners.

Italy's navy was not to continue to act as a separate naval unit
in the southern naval theatre of war, for on June 18, 1915, the
Minister of Marine of France announced that the "Anglo-French forces
in the Mediterranean were cooperating with the Italian fleet, whose
participation made possible a more effective patrol of the Adriatic.
Warships of the Allies were engaged in finding and destroying oil
depots from which the enemy's submarines had been replenishing
their supplies." This effective patrol did not, however, prevent
an Austrian submarine from sinking an Italian torpedo boat on June
27, 1915.

In the Baltic Sea the naval activity had at no time during the
first year of the war been great, but during the month of June,
1915, there was a minor naval engagement at the mouth of the Gulf
of Riga, during which the Germans lost a transport and the Russians
an auxiliary cruiser. In the other northern waters the Germans
lost the submarine _U-14_, which was sunk on June 9, 1915. The
crew were brought to England as prisoners. Three days later the
British admiralty admitted that two torpedo boats, the _No. 10_
and the _No. 12_ had been lost. The loss of two such small boats
did not worry Britain as much as did the loss of many merchant
ships in the war zone right through the spring and summer of 1915,
and to show that British warships were not immune from submarine
attack, in spite of the fact that many of the underwater craft of
Germany were meeting with disaster, the British cruiser _Roxburgh_
was struck by a torpedo on June 20, 1915, but was able to get away
under her own steam. The rest of the month saw small losses to
nearly all of the fleets engaged in the war, but none of these were
of importance.

The twelfth month of the first year of war was not particularly
eventful in so far as naval history was concerned. On July 1, 1915,
the Germans maneuvered in the Baltic Sea with a small fleet which
accompanied transports bearing men who were to try to land on the
nor