Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-07-02
Four Steamers, Schooner and
Bark Sent to Bottom
by Germans.
ONE ITALIAN VESSEL
/. SUNK IN TWO MINUTES
Eleven of Crew Are Dead-No Op.
portunity Given for Saw
ing Lives.

LONDON, July German suhma-
rines continue their destructive war
fare against British shipping. an
nouncement having just been maze
that four steamers. schooner and a
bark have been sunk. In addition to
these the italian ship Sardomene has
been sent to the bottom off the Irish
coast.
The British steamship Lomas, bound
from Argentina for Belfast. with
cargo of corn, was sunk by German
submarine Wednesday afternoon. sixty
miles west of the Scilly Islands.
The submarine first fired two shots.
presumably as a summons to haul 10.
but the second shell struck the steam
er, killing the second officer. The crew
took to the boats and were picked up
by a Belgian trawler and landed at
Milford Haven.
The submarine sent the Lomas to
the bottom by torpedo and shell hre.
The Lcmas was of 3.04S tons gross. her
in 1898 at West Hartlepool. and was
owned by the Buenos Aires and South
ern Railroad Company of Hull.
Three Others Torpedoed.
Three British steamers-Inglemoor
Caucasian and Welbury were tor
pedoed and sunk today. The crews of
the Inglemoor and the Caucasian were
landed at Falmouth. The crew of the
Welbury is safe.
The Caucasian, the largest of the
three vessels sent to the bottom. was
q tank steamer OF 1856 tons gross. On
lantic she left Port Arthur May IL and
Newport News May 20 for Dartmouth.
She was 365 feet long, 49 feet beam and
IS feet deep. She was built at Sunder-
land In 1899, and was owned by the
Petroleum Steamship Company of Lon
don.
Bound From Argentina.
The Inglemoor, according to latest
maritime records. left Bahia Blanca,
Argentina, March 81. bound for Naples.
She was of 4.331 gross tons. and was
built at Blyth in 1912. She was 1853
feet long. 81 feet beam and 27 feet
deep. She was owned by w. Runciman
e Co. Of London.
= The steamer Welbury left Kingston,
Jamaica, May % by way of Matanzas,
Cuba. June 8, for a port in the United
Kingdom. The Welbury was Of 1851
tons gross, and was built at West
Hartlepool in 1907. She was $40 feet
She was owned by the Burg Shipping
Company, Ltd, of Hartlepool.
italian Vessel Lost.
The Italian ship Sardomene. timber
laden. was torpedoed without warning
five miles from Castletown Bearhaven,
Ireland. The Sardomene sailed from
Bunbury February 81 for London. She
was a vessel of 1000 tons gross, and
was built in 1882.
Word has been received from Castle
town Bearhaven that nine of the Sardo-
mene's crew drowned and two others
died of injuries The mate is the only
officer among the nine survivors, two
Of whom are wounded. After the sub
marine had fired on the Sardomene she
disappeared within two minutes. The
crew had no opportunity of saving
lives. and but for the timely arrival of
= patrol boat all would have been lost
Schooner and Bark Sunk.
The British schooner l.. c. Tower,
which left Parrsboro. n. s., June /, for
Newport. England. was sunk off Fast
net today by German submarine
The undersea boat then sank a bark six
miles away. The crew of nine of the
schooner was landed at Queenstown.