Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1915-03-13
CRUISER BAYONA
| SENT TO BOTTOM
| BY ENEMY TORPEDO
Discovery of Bodies and
Wreckage Tells Of
Disaster.
SURVIVORS RESCUED
BY BELFAST STEAMER
Captain Saw Men on Raft Sig
mailing With Their Gar
rpents.
THEN MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE
Another Ship Prevented From Lend
ing Assistance by Appearance
Of Submarine.
THEN MORE DEAD THAN ALIVE
Another Ship Prevented From Lend
ing Assistance by Appearance
Of Submarine.

LONDON. March l3 G2:i5 ~ M).--
The admiralty announces the loss OF
the auxiliary cruiser Bnyano while tho
vessel was engaged in patrol duty.
In It's statement of the disaster the
admiralty says:
"On the llth or March wrcckage Of
the Bayano ana bodies were discovered
and circumstances point to her having
been sunk by an enemy torpedo.
Eight officers and eighteen men
were rescued, but 1t is feared that the
remainder of the crew were lost.
The captain Of the Belfast steamer
CastlereaGh reports passing Thursday
morning quantity of wrecllage and
bodies floating in life belts He at
tempted to search for possible sur
vivors, but was prevented by the ap-
pearancc OF an enemy submarine
which gave chase for twenty minutes"
The Belfast correspondent OF the
Daily Telegraph says tho Bayano was
torpedocd Thursday morning at .
o'clock off Corsewall Point, Wigtown-
shire. Scotland, and that nearly 2oO
lives were lost. The vessel had n
crow OF about ZIG men on board The
cruiser sank almost Immediately Wig
townshire is the southwcsternmost
county in Scotland. 1t lies on the
North Channel, which leads into tho
Irish Sea from tho Atlantic.
SURVIVORS RESCUED
BY nELFtST STEAMER
The survivors of the Bayano were
rescued by the Belfast steamer Bal
merino. They were anoat on a raft
Another steamer picked up one OF tho
Bayano's lfeboats which was adrift,
n IL al
Vivors were landed at Ayr
Tho captain OF the Balmcrino in an
interview with tho Daily Tclegrapl,'s
correspondent at Belfast, said that tho
haimertno was on n voyage from Bel
last to Ayr when, at $50 o'clock
Thursday morning. four miles from
biockhead he saw II low-lying object In
the water. His first impression was
mat II was n submarine, but on closer
inspection cluster Of men were OBJ
served making signals with garments
attached to an oar. When tho collier
got closer. the crew OF the Balmerino
iound TWO RATS and q ships boat up-
turned with twenty-six mon on them.
TWO OF the men," said tho captain.
"had no other clothing than shirts.
and others only their sleeping gar
ments. All were moro dead than alive
iFo'h wet, cold and exposure but
checred us as we ncarcd them. Boats
were lowered and the men were trans
ferred, which took a long time. owing
to the difficulty of moving the wounded
and famished members OF the group
WOULD HAVk: PERISHED
IN ANOTHER IIALF-IIoIyp
Tho captain said that two or the
rescued men were in such condition
that in another half-hour they would
have perished. Eighteen OF The men
on the raft. including two doctors.
were removed to the Balmerino. After
these were safely put aboard, a boat
was making second journey to tho
rafts when tho armed merchantmap
Tara arrived on the scene and took
OF the remaining eight survivors.
The BaEano was comparatively
new steamer. She was built at Clas-
gov in 1913, and was owned by Elder
N Fyfes before taken over by the Brit.
ish> government and fitted out as an
auxiliary cruiser.
Tho Raynno was OF $500 tons dis.
placement and 4l6 feet long.