The flooring which covers the batteries has been
removed]
[Illustration: The German cruiser "Bluecher" turning on her side
as she sank in the North Sea battle of January 24, 1915. The other
vessels of the German squadron escaped]
Great Britain, after six months of naval warfare had lost three
battleships, the _Bulwark, Formidable_, and _Audacious_;[*] the
five armored cruisers _Aboukir, Cressy, Hogue, Monmouth_, and _Good
Hope_; the second-class cruisers _Hawke_ and _Hermes_; the two
third-class cruisers _Amphion_ and _Pegasus_; the protected scout
_Pathfinder_ and the converted liner _Oceanic_; losses in destroyers
and other small vessels were negligible.
[Footnote *: The British admiralty did not clear up the mystery
of her disaster.]
Germany had lost no first-class battleships, but in third-class
cruisers her loss was great, those that went down being the eleven
ships _Ariadne, Augsburg, Emden, Graudenz, Hela, Koeln, Koenigsberg,
Leipzig, Nuernberg, Magdeburg, Mainz_, and the _Dresden_; she lost,
also, the four armored cruisers _Bluecher, Scharnhorst, Gneisenau_,
and _Yorck_; the old cruiser _Geier_ (interned); the three converted
liners _Spreewald, Cap Trafalgar_, and _Kaiser Wilhelm_; and the
mine layer _Koenigin Luise_.
The German policy of attrition had not taken off as many ships
as had been lost by Germany herself, and, as England's ships so
far outnumbered her own, it may well be said that the "whittling"
policy was not successful.
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