The Admiralty announces that the armoured cruiser Natal sank yesterday in harbour as the result of an internal explosion. There are about 400 survivors.
The Natal's complement was about 700 officers and men, Later.
The survivors of the Natal total fourteen officers and 373 men, The chief officers saved were:—Lieut,- Commander Tyndall: Lieutenant D. Q., Fieldes: Engineer-Commend-
pices E! 8, Tuck: Sub-Lieut, W.
Hazeon, Royal Marines: Fleet D, Greetham: Captain 0.
Price and the Chaplain thie rev. Driscoll, Jan, 1.
The Admiralty announces that twenty-five officers perished in the blowing-up of the cruiser Natal including Captain Eric Back, Commander John Hutchings, Lieut.- Commander J, B. Murray and Lieut,-Commander G, B, Harrison, Natal was an armoured cruiser of 13,550 tons, 480 ft. in length, and had a speed of twenty-three knots. Completed in 1907, she was of the Warrior class, the armament of which consists of six 9.2 in. and four 7.5 in. guns, all mounted in single turrets, and 90 disposed that six heavy guns bear on each broadside, There are, besides, twenty-four three-pounder quickfirera for use against torpedo-craft, and three submerged torpedo tubes. "The Natal was built at Barrow at a cost of £1,218,244.
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