riginal 'asistance'], although we signaled
to her from the Hogue to close after we were struck.

"The Aboukir appeared to me to take about thirty-five minutes to sink,
floating bottom up for about five minutes. The Hogue turned turtle very
quickly--in about five minutes--and floated bottom up for several
minutes. A dense black smoke was seen in the starboard battery, whether
from coal or torpedo cordite I could not say. The upper deck was not
blown up, and only one other small explosion occurred and we heeled
over.

"The Cressy I watched heel over from the cutter. She heeled over to
starboard very slowly, dense black smoke issuing from her when she
attained an angle of about 90 degrees, and she took a long time from
this angle till she floated bottom up with the starboard screw slightly
out of water. I consider it was thirty-five to forty-five minutes from
the time she was struck till she was bottom up.

"All the men on the Hogue behaved extraordinarily [Transcriber: original
'extraordinarly'] well, obeying orders even when in the water swimming
for their lives, and I witnessed many cases of great self-sacrifice and
gallantry. Farmstone, an able seaman of the Hogue, jumped overboard from
the launch to make room for others, and would not avail himself of
assistance until all the men near by were picked up. He was in the water
about half an hour.

"There was no panic of any sort, the men taking off their clothes as
ordered and falling in with hammock or wood. Capt. Nicholson, in our
other cutter, as usual, was perfectly cool and rescued large numbers of
men. I last saw him alongside the Flora. Engineer Commander Stokes, I
believe, was in the engine room to the last, and Engineer Lieut.
Commander Fendick got steam on the boat hoist and worked it in five
minutes.

"I have the honor to submit that I may be appointed to another ship as
soon as I can get a kit."

*The Sinking of the Hawke*

[By a Correspondent of The London Daily Chronicle.]

ABERDEEN, Scotland, Oct. 16.--The British cruiser Hawke was sunk in the
North Sea yesterday by a German submarine, and of her crew of 400
officers and men only 73 are known to have been saved.

The cruiser Theseus, a sister ship of the Hawke, was attacked by the
same submarine, but escaped because she obeyed the Admiralty's
instructions and looked to her own safety instead of rushing to the aid
of the Hawke's perishing crew.

A survivor of the Hawke gives the followin