AT SEA.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 31 May 1915, Page 5

AT SEA.

MORE SINKINGS

SWEDISH BARQUE BLOWN UP

ELDER-DEMPSTER STEAMER TOR-

PEDOED

LONDON, May 30. The Sunderland steamer Spennymoore has been sunk by a submarine off the Devonshire coast. The captain and five members of the crew were drowned.

It is* estimated that the Princess Irene death-roll is 270. It is supposed that the cause of the explosion was similar to that on the Bulwark.

STOCKHOLM, May 3*o. The Swedish barque Rosval, bound for Sunderland, timber-laden, was stopped by a German submarine, allowed to proceed, and then blown up. It is supposed she was torpedoed. The mast fell, killing two of the crew. A Dutch steamer rescued the remainder.

COPENHAGEN, May 30. The Danish steamer Ely, bound from England to Sundswall, wa« mined and sunk off Stockholm. The crew were saved.

LONDON, May 30. The submarine TJ24 torpedoed and sank the Eld*er Dempster steamer Ethiope near Land's End. The crew took to the boats, and one boat was picked up.