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Page 24
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[A]
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
[Footnote A: 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.]
[Illustration: ADMIRAL WILLIAM S. SIMS
Commander-in-Chief of United States Naval Forces in European waters.]
[Illustration: ADMIRAL SIR DAVID BEATTY
Commander-in-Chief of the British Grand Fleet.]
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 of the Russian
Government, for a consultation regarding munitions to be furnished the
Russian army. He was intending to go to Archangel and visit Petrograd,
and expected to be back in London by June 20th. He was accompanied
by Hugh James O'Beirne, former Councillor of the British Embassy at
Petrograd, O.A. Fitz-Gerald, his military secretary, Brigadier-General
Ellarshaw, and Sir Frederick Donaldson, all of whom were lost.
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