Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 99
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[Page 99]
[Transcriber's note: The following paragraph is crossed out and is much the same as the last paragraph on the previous page.]
On the way South to the River Plate we got wireless information from the Admiralty that there was reason to believe that the Karlsruhe was gone and we wiped her off our visiting list.
For some months nothing had been heard of the ship but in February some of her crew arrived in Germany by the Rio Grande a Brazilian steamer which had been her unwilling consort. Of her real fate we know nothing and will know nothing till the war is over and all things are revealed. [Sunk by spontaneous internal explosion]
She was badly damaged by the Bristol early in the war and her steering gear put out of commission probably she was so badly mauled that she was blown up by the Huns themselves. We had seen some wreckage but not enough to justify us in presuming her destruction and it was a relief to know that there was one ship the less to chase.
A few days later another signal came