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Totals 172,700 5,082 Date Name and Type How Sunk Tonnage Lives Lost Aug. 5 Panther, gunboat Shelled 900 75 Aug. 6 Koenigin Luise, mine layer Torpedoed 1,800 70 Aug. 7 Augsburg, protected cruiser Shelled 4,280 158 Aug. 9 U-15, submarine Shelled 400 12 Aug. 27 Kaiser Wm. der Grosse, aux. cruiser Shelled 14,849 30 Aug. 27 Magdeburg, protected cruiser Shelled 4,478 200 Aug. 28 Ariadne, protected cruiser Shelled 2,620 200 Aug. 28 V-186, V-187, destroyers Shelled 1,290 100 Sept. 14 Cap Trafalgar,auxiliary cruiser Shelled 26,000 14 Sept. 15 Hela, small cruiser Torpedoed 2,000 10 Oct. 17 S-115, 117, 118, 119, 4 destroyers 1,660 193 Oct. 20 S-30, destroyer Ran Ashore 400 ... Oct. 25 Submarine Shelled 400 12 Oct. 30 Submarine Shelled 400 12 Nov. 4 Yorck, armored cruiser Mined 9,350 226 Nov. 7 Jaguar, gunboat Shelled 330 50 Nov. 7 Luchs, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov. 7 Iltis, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov. 7 Cormoran, gunboat Shelled 1,600 100 Nov. 7 Tiger, gunboat Shelled 880 50 Nov 7 Taku, destroyer Shelled 280 26 Nov. 7 Ruchin, mine layer Shelled ... ... Nov. 9 Emden, protected cruiser Shelled 3,540 200 Nov. . . Wilhelm der Grosse, battleship Mined 10,790 400 Nov. . . Hertha, cruiser Mined 5,569 200 Dec. 8 Scharnhorst, armored cruiser Shelled 11,420 764 Dec. 8 Gneisenau, armored cruiser Shelled 11,420 700 Dec. 8 Leipzig, cruiser Shelled 3,200 280 Dec 8 Nurnberg, cruiser Shelled 3,200 256 Dec. 10 Three submarines Shelled 1,200 36 Number of vessels lost, 38.
Four German destroyers were to be the next victims of the war in European waters. On October 17, 1914, the S-115, S-117, S-118, and S-119 while doing patrol duty off the coast of the Netherlands, came up with a British squadron consisting of the cruiser Undaunted and the destroyers Legion, Lance, and Loyal.
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