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Date Name and Type How Sunk Tonnage Lives Lost Aug. 7 Amphion, protected cruiser Mined 3,440 136 Sept. 4 Speedy, torpedo gunboat Mined 810 ... Sept. 5 Pathfinder, protected cruiser Mined 2,940 250 Sept. 7 Warrior, protected cruiser Stranded 13,500 ... Sept. 9 Oceanic, auxiliary cruiser Wrecked 17,000 ... Sept. 18 Fishguard II, training ship Foundered ...... 21 Sept. 19 AE-1, submarine Lost 800 25 Sept. 20 Pegasus, protected cruiser Shelled 2,200 25 Sept. 22 Aboukir, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 510 Sept. 22 Cressy, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 561 Sept. 22 Hogue, protected cruiser Torpedoed 12,000 362 Oct. 16 Hawke, protected cruiser Torpedoed 7,350 350 Oct. 18 E-3, submarine Shelled 800 25 Oct. 27 Audacious, dreadnought Torpedoed 25,000 2 Oct. 31 Hermes, protected cruiser Torpedoed 5,600 ... Nov. 1 Monmouth, armored cruiser Shelled 3,800 540 Nov. 1 Good Hope, armored cruiser Shelled 14,100 875 Nov. 5 D-5, submarine Mined 550 21 Nov. 11 Niger, torpedo gunboat Torpedoed 819 ... Nov. 20 Bulwark, battleship Explosion 15,000 800 Jan. 1 Formidable, battleship Torpedoed 17,000 579 Number of vessels lost, 21.
The crowds on the shore watched two British destroyers and two submarines, which had been lying in the harbor, put out after the German force. The latter by that time had started off, dropping in its wake a number of floating mines. This strategy resulted in the loss of the submarine D-5, which hit one of the mines and sank immediately.
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