Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1915 — Rensselaer Young Man Has Been On German Ship Moltke. [ARTICLE]

Rensselaer Young Man Has Been On German Ship Moltke.

The German battleship, Moltke, reported damaged or sunk in a naval engagement in the Gulf of Riga and the Baltic sea, when Germany suffered a naval defeat Saturday, visited the United States three years ago with the Kiel squadron, paying an official return to this country for a visit a United States fleet had made to Germany the year before. At that time Harry Hickman and Don P. War?en, of this city, who were serving an enlistment in the coast artillery, were stationed at Port Monroe, Va., where the Kiel fleet spent several days. Hickman visited the three vessels in the fleet, namely, the Moltke, Steffen and Bremen. The Moltke was one of the finest German vessel's. It was 590 feet long, was armored with ten 11-inch guns, twelve 6-inch guns and twelve 34-pounders. Its displacement was 23,000 tons. It was built in 1911 at a cost of $12,000,000. It carried in ordinary time® a complement of 1,107 men. There has been no word from Germany concerning the naval defeat and there seems some doubt as to whether it was sunk. *