TWO MORE STEAMERS TORPEDOED.
SUBMARINES APPEAR ON THREE COASTS.
SIX DROWNED FROM OWE VESSEI*
(.Received 10.20 ajn.) LONDON, March 17. The Admiralty announces that the small steamer Atlanta was torpedoed off Inishturk, an island off the coast of Mayo, Ireland, on Monday. The crew were landed safely after the vessel had reached harbour. The steamer Fingall was torpedoed the following day off the Northumberland coast, 21 of the crew being landed. Six, including the chief mate and stewardess, perished. The liner Cameronia eluded a submarine off the Mull of Galloway, Scotland's south-westerly corner. A quarter of an hour later two submarines appeared, one on either aide. The liner zig-zagged for twenty minutes at a speed of 18 knots, and escaped. It is reported that in the case of the Atlanta the submarine's crew tried to snipe those on deck with rifles and revolvers. The Atlanta was a tiny craft of 519 tons, built in Glasgow in 1905, and by J. and D. Hutchinson. The Fingall, a vessel of 1,572 tons' was 3«ilt in Dundee in 1594 for the London and Edinburgh Shipping Co '
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Auckland Star, Volume XLVI, Issue 66, 18 March 1915, Page 5
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