BRITISH HOSPITAL SHIPS
ONE SUNK WITHOUT WARNING
ANOTHER STRIKES A MINE
(Received April 14, 8.50 a.m.) NEW YORK, 15th 'April. A' message from London states that the Hospital Ship Gloucester Castle (7999 tons) has been sunk. * The vessel was not warned. ■'■ '
The Hospital Ship Salta (7284 ton*) was also mined in the Channel
Fifty-two of those on board perished. ■ . . A later message states that the wounded on the Gloucester Castle were saved.
[The Gloucester Castle wag a steer twin-screw steamer, owned by the Union Castle Mail Steam Ship Company. She was built in Glaßgow by Fairfield and Company, in 1911.. The Salta was owned by the Admiralty, and was also built in 1911.]
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Evening Post, Volume XCIII, Issue 89, 14 April 1917, Page 5
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