EGYPTIAN STEAMER
CONFLICTING REPORTS
AMERICANS ON BOARD
(Rec. 9.15 a.m.) NEW YORK, May 19. It is learned" that the Egyptian steamer Zamzam, of 8299 tons, was sunk by enemy action in the South Atlantic, and that 323 persons, including 100 Americans, are believed to have been drowned. It is understood the passengers of the Zamzam included 24 American ambulance drivers en route for service with the British forces in | Egypt, also thirty-six American Catho-' lie missioners bound for Central Africa. ! The cargo included trucks, automobiles, and machinery marked'with the flags of non-belligerents consigned to Egypt and probably destined for the British forces.—U.P.A.
The Zamzam was previously known as the British Exhibitor, and was built by Harland and Wolff in Belfast in 1909. At one time her name was Leicestershire. She was owned by the Societe Misr de Navigation Maritime, of Cairo, and was registered at Alexandria.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXI, Issue 117, 20 May 1941, Page 8
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