THREE BRITISH MERCHANTMEN TORPEDOED

Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 60, 11 March 1915, Page 5

THREE BRITISH MERCHANTMEN TORPEDOED

1 SENT TO THE BOTTOM WITHOUT WARNING. \ THIRTY-SEVEN OF ONE CREW DROWNED, LONDON, March 10. The Admiralty announces that three British merchantmen were sunk by torpedo attack on Tuesday. The Tangistan was sunk off Scarborough, and only one of a crew of 38 is yet known to be saved. The Blackwood was torpedoed off Hastings. The crew of 17 were saved. The Princess Victoria was sunk off LiverpooL The crew of 34 were saved. The three steamers were sunk without warning. Half of the Tangistan's crew were Lascars. The vessel sank in four ininutes, dragging down the lifeboats. The Princess Victoria sighted the torpedo, hut had no time to manoeuvre. Ehe sank in ten minutes. The Blackwood sank in fifteen minutes. The steamer Clan MacKae of 5,058 tons eluded a submarine near the -Jfersey Bar. She was chased for 25 minutes. j German newspapers claim that the submarine Ul6 cruised in the Orkneys, .Shetlands and Faroe Islands, and that it was,, she who chased the Laertes, ' f«mk the Dulwich, the VDle de Lille and the Dinorah. It is claimed th*t the US—since sunk by British IsjjgS vessels. ■ " "\i "**<•..

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