New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-03-10
German Undersea Craft
Attack at Widely Sep
arated Points.
81 MEN GO DOWN
WITH TANGISTAN
Only One Person Saved
from Ship Torpedoed
Off Scarborough.
RAIDERS IN IRISH SEA
Princess Victoria Struck Off Liv-
erpOol, Blackwood Of Hast
ings-Crews Saved.

German submarines yesterday Tues
day. sank three steamships Thirty
seven lives were lost. The statement.
follows:
"The steamer Tsngistsn was sunk by
a German submarine of Scarborough
at 1880 o'clock on the morning of
March 8. Only one man Of her crew
of thirty-eight was saved
THE steamer Blackwood was sunk
by a submarine, without warning, of
Hastings at 8 o'clock on the morning
of March 3. Her crew Of seventeen
was saved.
THE steamer Princess Victoria, OF
Glasgow, was sunk without warning by
a German submarine at 9:l5 O'Clock on
the morning of March of Liverpool.
Her crew or thirty-four was saved"
The Clan Line steamer Clan Macrae
was chased by a German submarine
boat of the Mersey Bar IN the Irish
Sea early in the morning for twenty
hve minutes. The steamer escaped By
zlgzagging at full speed.
The Clan Macrae left Port Natal on
January u for Liverpool
"Ihc news Of the latest exploits On
the German submarines came lust as \
the British public was congratulating '
itself that the German blockade had
been a failure.
The official report announcing the
torpedoing of the Tangistan. the Black
wood and the Princess Victoria the two
former cargo boats and the latter once
a coastwse passenger ship--indicates
that German submarines again are
raiding at widely separated points
around the British Isles. IS all the
boats were torpedoed within a period
of less than nine hours, il would seem
probable that all three were sunk By
different underwater craft.
Scarborough, the port of which the
/ Tangistan was sunk, Is on the North
Sea, in Yorkshire; Hastings is on the
English Channel, in Sussex. and Liver.
pool is virtually on the Irish Sea.
The Tangistan. the largest of the
sunken vessels, was of 2.393 tons dis
placement. She was built in 1906 and
owned by the Strick Line, of Swansea.
The Blackwood was built IN 1907 and
belonged TO the Tyneside Line, OF
/ North Shields. She was 7il- ton yes
/ sci.
! The Princess Victoria was owned By
| VI. Langlands & Sons, of Glasgow. She
was steamer of $50 tons displace-
ment and was built in 1912.
West Hartlepool, March 9.-The crew
OF thlrty-eight men of the British
steamer Tangistan all were drowned
except one man, according 70 the state
ment made by the sole survivor Of the
vessel. who has been landed here by
the steamer Woojyille.
The Tangistan," said this man. was
torpedoed OFF, Scarborough She was
struck amdships and went down al
most Immediately. All the members OF
the crew were in the lifeboats, but they
were unable 10 disconnect the lowering
tackle before the ship sank and dragged
down the boats with her. caught
hold of piece of wreckage and clung
TO it for nearly three hours in the icy
water until was rescued
The survivor of the Tangistan Is
James OToole, an Englshman. Six
teen men OF the crew were English
and the remainder Arabs. The boats
had already been swung out. in view
of a possible submarine attack, and
most of the men on board wore life
belts when the vessel was torpedoed.
OToole said later that four other
mained ahoat for some time
Two boats" he continued, passed
close by within an hour or two. We
all shouted to them, but they did not
hear or see W.. One of the men yelled
over to me that this was his second
experience, with a German submarine,
as he had been saved some months ago
from a vessel that had been blown 10
IL the North Sea.
when the Woodylle came up her
boats crJised about trying 10 fine my
companions, but there was no trace OF
them anywhere"
Liverpool, March 10. The crew Of
the steamer Princess Victoria in two
small boats were towed IN here late
yesterday afternoon. The men were
suffering from exposure. Telling or
the sinking Of his vessel the captain
said
"The submarine discharged a tor
pedo at US without even showing her
periscope. The weather conditions
were excellent, and a number OF spe-
cial lookoGts, who were posted TO keep
watch, saw no submarine.
AT 9:l5 o'clock the steersmsn sud
denly shouted. A torpedo is comingl'
He had seen the white swirl OF the
missile. As he spoke il hit US, and a
violent explosion followed. which
caused the vessel instantly 10 list
heavily.
81 ordered two boats overheard, and
into them the crew scrambled. Our
ship disappeared in about fifteen min
utes. We rowed in the direction OF
Liverpool. Five hours in the open
boats nearly did US up
Newhayen. March l0.-The captain
end crew Of the steamer Blackwood.
which was sunk of Hastings at 6 a. m.
on Tuesday, were landed here late on
Tuesday night. They say that their
vessel, laden with coal ami bound from
Blyth for Hayre, was torpedoed during
a snowstorm early in the morning
eighty miles south OF Dungeness, with
out warning.
Fortunately. in view Of the subma-
rine sea zone menace. the men say they
had their boats swung out and ready
for launching. and that therefore all OF
them were saved. Nobody on board
the steamer was injured. The vessel
sank within ten minutes after she was
struck and the men on board lost all
OF their eifetA