'Suicide Squadron' - One U-Boat sinks Three Cruisers, by Cmdr Austin Tyrer | 22 September 1914 | Episode 37
Published on 22 September 1914
A severe blow to the British Navy occurred on Sept. 22, 1914, when three cruisers, the Hogue, Aboukir and Cressy, were sunk in the North Sea by the torpedoes of one German submarine. The narrative which follows is one that was originally told by Commander Tyrer, one of the Hogue's survivors, to Captain Barry O'Brien. His pitiful story of a sea black with drowning men is related with a power and directness worthy of the greatest naval writers.