HMS Hawke, a 387ft (118m) long and 60ft (18m) wide Edgar-class protected cruiser, was first launched in 1891. In 1911, it was involved in an infamous collision in the Solent with RMS Olympic ...

The cruiser, Karlsruhe, sold for £8,500 to a private ... Admiral Ludwig von Reuter ordered the deliberate sinking of his ships in WW1 because he feared either the resumption of hostilities ...

Before divers swam around the remains of the cruiser, no one had seen her since ... the divers recorded tell-tale features of a WW1-era warship, while a side-scan sonar sweep of the wreck by ...