New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-05-03
VESSEL BEACHED
THREE LIVES LOST
British Steamship and
French Freighter Fired
On and Sunk.
ACTIVITY OFF SCILLY
Shells from Undersea Graft In
terrupt Work Of Rescuinc
Men in Open Boats.

London, May 2.-The American OF
tank steamer Gulflight which sailed
from Port Arthur, Tex. April 10, for
Rouen, France, is one Of the FIRST VIC
Tins of Germsny's renewed submarine
campaign. She was torpedoed at noon
on Saturday off the Scilly Islands. se-
cording TO a dispatch to the Centra!
News.
The captain Of The Gulfligh,, ae ord
ing to the same advices, died OF scar.
failure as result of shock. Two sea-
men jumped overheard and wers
drowned.
The other members Of the crew were
taken off by a patrol boat and landed
and the vessel towed into Crow Sound
and beached.
The Guhight is steel vessel Of
3,202 tons net and was built at Cam,
den, n. j.. in 1914. She is owned BY
the Gulf Refining Company. The ves-
SCI is 3s3 feet long, 81 feet beam and !,
80 feet deep.
Captain Shot and Killed. Y
The British steamer Fulgent sAs
sunk by German submarine norm
west of the Skelling Rocks. of the
southwest coast Of ireland, before
dawn on Saturday, says a dispatch TO
Lloyds from Kilrush, Ireland.
A boat containing nine survivors ana
the body of the captain Of the steamer
was brought into Kilrush by trawler.
The trawler was unable to find The
second boat of the Fulgent, containing
the remainder of the rev. The Full
gent was vessel Of 1902 tons.
The French steamer Europe. from
Barry for st: Nazaire, with a cargo OF
coal. was torpedoed by German sub
marine on Saturday morning near
Bishop Rock, in the Scillv island group,
and sunk. says a dispatch 70 Lloyds
from Penzance. The crew was rescued
by a steam drifter. :.
The submarine signailed the crew OF
the Europe to leave their ship. When
they had done this the submarine
sheiled the steamer, which, however,
failed 20 sink. Meanwhile the skipper
of the steam drifter Roseyine, attracted
by the noise of the gun OF the SUB
marine. made an investigation. where
upon the submarine started 10 chase
the Rosevine.
Patrol Boat Comes Up.
The Rosevine sent up distress rock
cts. and was proceeding toward the
Scilly Islands when a patrol boat,
which previously had not been seen
owing to the foggy weather, appeared.
Together the patrol boat and the
drifter went back toward the Europe,
at which the submarine was still nring
with her gun. Half a mile from ih@
Europe the Rosevine picked up eoa
loaded with members OF the crew %
the steamer. The work Of rescue wa
interrupted by three shells from the
submarine, which fell within thlrty
yards of the drifter.
Then, apparently alarmed at the sP-
pearance of the patrol boat, the sub
marine torpedoed the Europe, which
disappeared IN cloud Of steam and
/ coai dust.
The submarine carried no number
Boston, May 2.--The captain of the
tank steamer Gulflight, who lost his
/ life when his vessel was torpedoed on
/ the Scilly Islands on Saturday, was Al
/ fred Gunther, Of New York. The hrst
mate is Ralph Smith, of Wakefield.
Captain Gunther was commander OF
-
down in gale in January last year OF
/ the coast Of New Jersey With sew.
eral members Of the crew he escaped
from the vessel in a lifeboat and was
picked up eventually BY another