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The lord mayor of the city of Birmingham received the following telegram the next morning: "Birmingham will be proud to learn that the first German submarine destroyed in the war was sunk by H. M. S. Birmingham." Two shots from the British ship had struck the German U-15, and she sank immediately.
On August 12 there came from Edinburgh the story of an eyewitness of a naval battle in the North Sea on the previous Sunday between British cruisers and German submarines, in which the German submarine U-15 was sunk. "The cruiser squadron on Sunday," the story ran, "suddenly became aware of the approach of the submarine flotilla.
This shot struck at the base of the conning tower, ripping the whole of the upper structure clean and the U-15 sank like a stone. "The remainder of the submarine flotilla fled." In the last week of August a naval engagement occurred off the island of Heligoland, in the North Sea. British war vessels sank five German ships, killing 900 men.
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