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 sent for the purpose from England. Each was manned by
four officers and eighteen men, to take them across the Atlantic.
Never before in history had so many submarines undertaken a voyage as
great. They got under way from Quebec on July 2, 1915, and proceeded
in column two abreast, a big auxiliary cruiser, which acted as
their escort steaming in the center.

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