July 3, 1915, 
LAND AND WATER. 
SUBMARINE ATTACK RECORD. 
— Y- 
DISTBIBUTIOM OF TEE JUNE ATTACKS. 
with one of the newly-decorated crew of Ell 
published in the Daily Chronicle oi Monday last, 
fhat Commander Nasmith. V.C, torpedoed no 
less than eight separate ships m his heroic expedi- 
tion into the Sea of Marmara. He must ha^^ car- 
ried, then, at least eight torpedoes. The Geiman 
vessels may be built to carry as many or more. It 
is probably safe to assume that the ships in 
Group B could not all of them have fallen to a 
Binfcle submarine. . • i ,i, + ♦!,« 
But the reader should bear in mmd that the 
whole of this grouping idea may turn out to bo 
fallacious. For instance, while the position ot 
the ships in the A group suggests the theory that 
a single submarine could have got them all, it is 
more than probable that the A and B groups 
should be regarded as one, that there was no 
definite body of submarines working this district 
the entire time, and that there were relaj/s of 
boats, perhr.ps six in all, that took the ships in 
the A group as they came and went, and accmmted 
for the ships in B group when they ^^'f'^^^ ^f •^' 
field. Similarly the Dutch group and Group ±j 
may have been the work of boats coming and 
going. Whichever view is right, it seems le^son 
Sble to say that eight is the minimum "um^^^jj 
submarines that could have done ^he v^oik an«J 
that twelce or thirteen is the maximum number 
likely to have been employed. roLLEN, 
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