HMS Irresistible
Front Pages

March 19, 1915: Front page of the Berkley Daily Gazette, Berkley, California. The headline announces the loss of the French battleship Bouvet, but the story states that two British battleships were only damaged.



March 19, 1915: Front Page of the Oakland Tribune, Oakland, California.


Story from the above newspaper. While the headline on the front page stated "Allies' Battleships Sunk" the story on Mar. 19 was still two British battleships only damaged.


March 19, 1915: Front page of The Bakersfield Californian, Bakersfield, California.


March 19, 1915: Story from the above front page announcing the loss of HMS Irresistible, HMS Ocean and Bouvet. Note that they give credit to the Germans, not the Turks.


March 20, 1915: Front page of The Anaconda Standard, Anaconda, Montana showing photos of both HMS Irresistible and Bouvet.

March 20, 1915: Front page of the Canton Daily News, Canton, Ohio.


March 20, 1915: Front page of the Chicago Examiner.


March 20, 1915: Front page of the Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette, Fort Wayne, Indiana.


March 20, 1915: Front page of the Iditarod Pioneer, Iditarod, Alaska.


May 4, 1915: Front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer showing the released photo of HMS Irresistible sinking. Many papers in the United States published this photo.


May 8, 1915: Front page of the Centralia Evening Sentinel, Centralia, Illinois. This page is interesting because the editor has used the photo of HMS Irresistible on the front page rather than one of the Lusitania, which was sunk by SMS U-20 the day before.



Page published Aug. 23, 2020