Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-03
T.. Attack on Former Coast
Guard Cutter Near English
Coast at Night.
WELL AHEAD OF OTHER
CRAFT: WRECKAGE FOUND
Ten Officers, 1O2 Enlisted Men of
Crew, One British Officer and
Five Civilians Lose Lives.

The L. s. s. Tampa, a former
coast guard cutter i'll naval serv-
4Ltc. was lost off the English
Coast September 70. with all on
board, while on convoy duty.
Ten officers and 102 enlisted
men Of the crew, one British OF
ficer and five civilian employees
lost their lives.
A Navy Department state
hlent today announcing the dis
aster says the ship was sunk at
night in the Bristol channel, and
that reports indicate that she
was struck by u torpedo while
eScortlnS a convoy.
Capt. Satterlee in Charge.
Capt. c. Satterlee Of the coast guard
commanded the cutter. Apparently
there were no eye-witnesses to the
sinking
The Navys report says an explosion
was felt after the Tampa had gone
well ahead of the convoy about S:45
pm. and that later quantities OF
wreckage, one of the TampaS life
belts and the bodies of two uuidentl-
fed officers in uniform were found.
Reports of the disaster, which oc-
l. hnO N
reach Washington today as the result
L of private messages sent by the Navy
Department to the families of the men
lost Then the department made the
following statement:
The Navy Department has been IN
formed of the loss of the L. 5. 5.
Tampa with all the officers and men
on board on September 26, off the
English coast in the Bristol channel
The reports indicate that this ship was
! sunk at night by torpedo while en-
I gagged in escortinG convoy.
1T is reported by other vessels OF
the convoy that the Tampa, for some
unknown reason. had gone we'll ahead
of the convoy and@that about S:1o
pm. the shock of an explosion was
felt.
Two Dead Bodies Found.
''The vessel which conducted the
search in the vicinity found large
quantities of wreckage and one of the
Tampa's life belts. Two dead bodies
i'll naval uniform, but otherwise Un-
identified, were found.
The l.. s. s. Tampa was Il former
coast guard cutter and was In COM
mand of Capt. c. Satterlee, of the
Coast Guard. Her complement con-
sisted of ten officers and 102 enlisted
men, and it is reported that she had
on board also one British officer and
five civilian employees.
The Tampa was a vessel of 1,1S1
tons displacement and when in the
coast guard service carried a crew of
eight officers and sixtytwo men. She
was built at Newport News, Va, in
1912 and assigned to the Atlantic
s. coast. with headquarters at Key
West, Fla.
Capt Satterlee was born at New
London. Conn, in September, 1915. He
was appointed to the Coast Guard
Academy November 19, 1895.
He was given the grade of third
lieutenant January II, 1898; in May,
1899, he was promoted to the rank
of second lieutenant. Seven years
later he obtained Il first 1ieutenancy-
In 1909 he was promoted to the rank
Of captain.
Formerly the Miami.
TAMPA, Fla, October 3.-The Cutter
Tampa was formerly the Miami Her
llame was changed about three years
go. when she was placed on patrol
duty on the west coast of Florida with
headquarters at Key West. She had
been used considerably in patrolling ice
lanes in northern Atlantic waters in ac-
cordance with the internat tional agree
ment before Nhe United States went into
the war.
On the declaration of war she was
sent to foreign waters. and il is under
stood she was in the Mediterranean and
near Gibraltar part of the time