List of Enemy Vessels sunk

SINKING OF ENEMY SHIPS
Enclosure No. 4 in H.F. Letter No. 1396, dated 18th June 1916.

Battleships or Battle Cruisers
6.50 P.M. 31 May '16 1 Battleship of KONIG class. - CERTAIN Chief Witness Mate Arthur G. Boyce, BENBOW Station G.C.T.—8 power glasses. At 6.40 p.m., 3 KÖNIGS then being in sight the second "KONIG" was seen to be heavily hit, then to turn 16 points to starboard, the original third ship passing her. He saw this ship settle by the stern, his attention being called to the angle her mainmast was making to the horizon. Witness then gave a very good description of a ship sink- ing first by the stern and then capsizing to port, a large amount of smoke and steam coming from foremost funnel. (When last seen she had not actually disappeared.)>br> Confirmed by 6.33 p.m., report of THUNDERER, (ship) in this case designated as a KAISER. Hit by THUNDERER very heavily. Ship ablaze fore and aft. Talks of two ships overlapping each other,

DESTROYERS
== SUBMARINES = J. R. Jellicoe, ADMIRAL. 19th June, 1916.

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