Norwich bulletin., 1917-02-27
|2e AMERICANS ON
 ToRPEDoED LAcoNIA
tcentinusd from P.ae onsl ].

tOhfEp0ED LASOntH
 tcontinusd from Page onsl Coast Artillery Corps. stationed at Fort Du Pont, near Philadelphia.
 Arthur T. Kirby, Bainbridge, N. Y.
 Mrs. Mary E. Hoy. Chicago.
 Miss Elizabeth Hoy. Chicago. E Rev.James Wareing, registered from New York but said to be from Nor
 Americans Among the Crew
 The Americans among the crew were signed here to take the places of others whose terms of service had ex- pired or who had failed to appear men were recruited mostly from shipping pffices and gave New York and. Brooklyn as their places of res idence- They were stokers, coal trim mers. wipers and seamen.
 While details of the cargo of the Eaconfa are withheld under a recent, ruling Of the customs officials, it was learned at the office of the company the principal commodities carried: Contents of Cargo.
 One thousand bars of silver, 40,O0 bushels of wheat; z,S43 bales of cot ton; 1,04s boxes of fresh fruit; 5000 tons of shell castings and other war supplies and 5000 tons of provisions.
 Officials of the line stated positiyeI.
 
 board
 Carried 5000 Bags of Mail
 In addition to cargo and passengers. the Laconia carried 5000 bags Q United States and Canadian mail. 1900 sacks of which had been trans ferred fro -mthe American liner St. Louis. The Laconia, sailing on the same date the Holland America liner Ryndam returned to port after being turned back from her voyagle to Rot
 
 o nboard nine of the Ryndam's pas sengers.
 Was Armed With One Defens Gun.
 The Iaconia, when she left was armed with one defense gun, mounted aft The report that the ship wa torpedoed at night and without warn ing, indicate that no opportunity was given to make use of the defense gun. according to officials of the line.
 The Laconia is the second ship to be sunk of the former Boston Liver pool service of the Cunard Line. A sister ship, the Franconia, was sunk last October in the Mediterranean while in the British government ser vice. Both vessels were taken over by the British admiralty soon after for a time used in the service of the government as a transport She was only recently restored to her owners for commercial purposes and the trip on which she was sunk was her third after coming back to the service for which she was built. Several of the officers in the stewards department who were '>on the Laconia were also on the Franconia when she went down.
 Dimensions and Tonnage. T
 The registered. gross tonnage of the Laconia was 1S,510, her length was 625 feet and she had a beam of T: feet. Designed for high class passeng models modern marine architecture.
 No Steerage Passengers.
 No steerage passengers were on board the ship and those not Ameri- cans were mostly English or Canadi- ans, many of the latter being on their way to England to engage in govern ment service, or returning to duty after leaves of absence at home.
 First Cabin Passengers.
 The first cabin passengers exclusive of Americans, all British subjects wit. the exception of two Swiss, and one Ecuadorean, were CalliXto Arroy, Ec uador; Russell D Bradshaw, Toronto {, New York; H. C Braun, Switzerland; Henry Chatham, London: Reginald ,. C. Downing, Sydney, Australia; Ea mund s. Duggan, Toronto; J. F. Foth- l A alexander French, British Guiana: James Guthrie, Ayr, Scotland; SeweIl l H. Gregory, London; Benjamin l Gault, Ont; Arthur A. Hol- land, Montreal, Cedro P: Ivatts. Lon l don; Lucien J. Jerome, British Charge q Affaires, Quito, Ecuador; James ! Lawrie, London; John N. Mccall, Lan- caster. England; Morwitz Marouse, l London; A NJ. Taylor, London; John l B. Newman, Tamworth, New South l Wales; Major w. H. Owen, London; 1 Irvine Robinson, Toronto; Rev. F. Dunstan Sargent, Grenada. l West Indies: Miss Mitsie Siklosi. l Paris: Charles R. Wood. TamesvnIe, | Queensland: Australia; pr. Fortuna l zyndei. Basic, Switzerland. Of these Mr. Robinson and MT. and | Mrs. Boston were passengers on the | Ryndam, which turned back when she i Boston is an official of the United | Leather Company in this city. Seweil | H. Gregory is member of the Nor | gan Crucible company here
 Names of Americans in Crew A list of twenty Americans in the 1 crew of the Laconia on file in the of 1 ice of the British shipping comnis- 1 sioner here contains the following | names: W. Wrong, H. Smith, Louis | rflle, Ky: M- Shugled. J. T. Williams F'umpines, J. D. BraIl, J. Lewar, J. 1 B. Adamson HI. Shippard, J. 1 Johnson, H. Young, L. Donnen, B. Il Carter. New York; T. Coffey Brook | ork.
 Second Cabin Passengers
 The second cabin passengers. in ad- 1 iition to the one American, were all 1 British subjects, as follows:
 David Adams, Miss Margery Chap nan. Miss Dorothy Ann Chapman, l Miss B. M. Finlay, Miss Margaret C. Munro. all of New York; Mrs. Mar saret Howie, Master Morweod Howie. Miss Catherine Howie, Master Howard Iowie, John Stewart, all from Chi ago; H. R. Darlington Colombia South America; Frederick Edis, Wor-