the Italian fleet, whose
participation made possible a more effective patrol of the Adriatic.
Warships of the Allies were engaged in finding and destroying oil
depots from which the enemy's submarines had been replenishing their
supplies." This effective patrol did not, however, prevent an Austrian
submarine from sinking an Italian torpedo boat on June 27, 1915.

In the Baltic Sea the naval activity had at no time during the first
year of the war been great, but during the month of June, 1915, there
was a minor naval engagement at the mouth of the Gulf of Riga, during
which the Germans lost a transport and the Russians an auxiliary
cruiser. In the other northern waters the Germans lost the submarine
_U-14_, which was sunk on June 9, 1915. The crew were brought to
England as prisoners. Three days later the British admiralty admitted
that two torpedo boats, the _No. 10_ and the _No. 12_ had been lost.
The loss of two such small boats did not worry Britain as much as did
the loss of many merchant ships in the war zone right through the
spring and summer of 1915, and to show that British warships were not
immune from submarine attack, in spite of the fact that many of the
underwater craft of Germany were meeting with disaster, the British
cruiser _Roxburgh_ was struck by a torpedo on June 20, 1915, but was
able to get away under her own steam. The rest of the month saw small
losses to nearly all of the fleets engaged in the war, but none of
these were of importance.

The twelfth month of the first year of war was not particularly
eventful in so far as naval history was concerned. On July 1, 1915,
the Germans maneuvered in the Baltic Sea with a small fleet which
accompanied transports bearing men who were to try to land on the
northern shores of Russia. The port of Windau was the point at which
the German bombardment was directed, but Russian torpedo boats and
destroyers fought off the invading German fleet--which must have been
small--and succeeded in chasing the German mine-layer _Albatross_,
making it necessary for her captain to beach her on the Swedish island
of Gothland, where the crew was interned on July 2, 1915. On the same
day a German predreadnought battleship, believed to have been the
_Pommern_, was sunk at the mouth of Danzig Bay by a torpedo from a
British submarine.

In the Adriatic Austria lost a submarine, the _U-11_, through a unique
action. The submersible was sighted on July 1, 1915, by a French
aer