Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-02-09
More Vessels Are Sunk.

| LONDON, February 9. 2:57 pm
Lloyds shipping agency this afternoon
announced that the Norwegian steam
ship Hanskinck. formerly the Ameri-
| can steamer Satilla. of 2,667 tons gross
has been sunk.
The Norwegian steamship Ida, of
| submarine. Surviving members of the
crew were landed today The captain
! stated that the chief mate and the
| steward were killed While on deck by
I gunfire. the submarine firing continu-
! ously without warning until the vessel
| sank. ,s.sss....ssscgg {
Lloyds announced that the British
! steamer Saxonian. the French steamer
Yyonne and the Russian schooner Bang
| puhtis have been sunk.
| The British steamship Hanna Larsen.
| 1,31o tons gross. has been sunk by a sub
| marine. Her captain and chief engineer
| were taken prisoner. The remainder of
the crew was landed
Lloyds also announces that the Brit
| ish steamer Vedamore has been sunk
and that her crew has been landed.
| Statements by survivors of vessels
recently sunk show that in one case a
submarine operating in the war zone
employed a steamer which it had seized
as a place of temporary refuge for
crews of other vessels attacked and
| SUNK.
| Inc SURVIVORS WHO lOiu OIL tnIS pro-
cedure were from the Norwegian sail
/ ing vessel Songel and the Furness
| liner Turino. The captain and twenty
J nine of the crew of the latter were
| landed. Her first engineer and three
J Of her firemen were killed.
American Reported Killed.
| An American colored fireman on the
Turino, George Washington. was killed.
according to a report received by the
American embassy yesterday.
The crews of both vessels. the survivors
relate. were on board an unnamed Italian
steamer for two days The German SUBJ
marine operating here used this Italian
vessel. which it had armed and provided
with a crey of six men. as a ship to
stand by and receive the crews Of sunken
ships.
| After the crews OF the Songely and
i Turino had been on board the italian ship
| for two days they were transferred to the
! British steamer Penmount. which was Or
dered to take them to port. The Germans
| also transferred from the submarine to
the Penmount Capt Srailes Of the steam
| er HolIipside who had been taken on
| board the submarine as a prisoner when
| his vessel was sunk. His crew Of twenty
two were left in open boats. he reported.
and still missing.
/
| sink the Italian vessel before returning to
Germany, according to survivors.
| Forty-one Die on California.
| The British passenger steamer California
| of the Anchor line, bound from New York
! for Glasgow, snich was torpedoed at 8
| o'clock Wednesday morning off the Irish
coast, sank in nine minutes. with the loss
| of forty-one lives. The stricken ship was
able to send out rs. o. s." calls and help
arrived promptly. Nevertheless five per-
sons were killed by the explosion and
| of the lifeboats.
| The California was an armed liner. car
rying a single AZ gun mounted on the
stern. The gunner was just training the
weapon on the spot where oil bubbles had
revealed the presence of the underwater
enemy when a torpedo struck the pert side
| with an explosion SO violent that most
| of the people aboard were thrown off their
feet, five being killed and score injured
! The submarine red a second torpedo
| In an apparent effort to accelerate the
sinking but the second shot missed. al
| though both torpedoes were fired from a
distance OF less than 300 yards.
! Capt Henderson, commander OF the
California. declares that the conduct Of
|
Reports to United States Embassy.
According to the reports received by
the American embassy from some Of tho
survivors. there-was only ono submarine.
which, howeveR,dred two torpedoes. one
of which missed by a few yards. the other
hitting the California squarely on the port
quarter. 1t was the captain from the
bridge who discerned suspicious oil bub-
bles on the surface Of the water 900 yards
distant. He instantly OWNED that a sub
marine was there. and ordered the gunner
to fire. Before this could be done the
ship was torpedoed.
The track of the torpedoes and the
periscope of the submarine could be
seen, but no warning was given, and
the submarine did not speak the boats
after the survivors were in tho water.
Capt. Henderson and the other OFF,
GERS remained aboard the California
until the ship went down. Among the
ofncers missing are Chief Engineer
Smith. Engineer Cunningham and Third
sOf1cor Simpson.