STEAMERS SUNK BY MINE AND TORPEDO

Evening Post, Volume LXXXIX, Issue 44, 22 February 1915, Page 7

STEAMERS SUNK BY MINE AND TORPEDO

NO WARNING GIVEN LONDON, 20th February. The steamer Cambank was sunk off Holyhead. Three of the crew were killed in the engine-room, and one drowned. The Cambank was copper-laden from Huelva, going to Liverpool. She took tip the pilot and was gathering speed when she saw a periscope two hundred yards away. She received no warning. Hex engines were reversed, and while turning she was hit by a torpedo amidships. The Norwegian coal steamer Bjarko (286 tons), bound from Leith to Nakitow, struck a mine and sank. The crew were saved. (Received February 22, 10 a.m.) LONDON, 21sfc February. A submarine torpedoed and sunk a small coal-laden steamer, the Bownshire, off Calf of Man (an island at the southern extremity of the Isle of Man), on Saturday evening. She gave the crew five minutes to leave. DAMNING EVIDENCE LONDON, 21st February. The Admiralty announces that pieces of a torpedo were found in the Steamer Belridge, a Norwegian oiltank steamer damaged by a German submarine in the Channel. (Received February 22, 9.30 a.m.) LONDON, 21st February. A special examination by the Admiralty of the pieces found in the Belridge definitely proved that she was torpedoed. ANXIETY OF NEUTRALS (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) (Received February 22. 8 a.m.) / i.ONDON, 20th February. The Dutch Government has recommended shipowners to instruct their captains, in the event of meeting submarines, to stop and give all information. There is anxiety in Copenhagen at the effect of the Germans' piratical operations. A number of cre\ys refused to risk sailing, and left their ships, but fifty Danish ships are crossing the North Sea. Press Association. A HELPING HAND (Received February 22, 8.45 a.m.) PARIS, 20th February. The boatswain of the Ville de Lille states that a submarine;, seeing the ship's boats making desperate efforts to reach the coast, towed them towards Barfleur until she saw the smoke of approaching torpedo boats, when she leisurely sank beneath the water. [The small French steamer Ville de Lille was blown up in the Channel by the German submarine Ul6 about the 16th of this month. She gave the crew ten minutes to take to the boats.]