The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1918-08-12
TWO STEAM Frs
SUNK OFF THE j. s.
COAST BY U-B0AT
BRITISH SHIP PENISTONE
AND SWEDISH STEAMER
SYDLAND GO DOWN
SIXTY MEN IN OPEN BOATS
Fleet of 80 Sailing Vessels Were At
tackled Saturday Night by Same
Raider-U-Boat Commander For
merly in Service of United States.

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Raider-U-Boat Commander For
merly in Service of United States.
Washington, Aug. l2.ADestruc-
ton of the British steamer Penis
tone, 1000 tons gross, and the Swed-
ish steamer Sydland, by a German
submarine off the New England
coast, was reported today to the ma
Wy department. The Pcnistone was
sent down southeast of Nantucket.
No news OF the fate of the crews
was given in the departments dis
patch.
All the vessels are believed by
naval officials to have been ac-
counted for by the U-boat which
has been operating in north Allan
tic waters for two weeks or more.
The Penistone was sunk near
Georges bank off the Massachusetts,
coast where some eleven fishing
boats were destroyed yesterday.
All of the members of the Svd-
lands crew were rescued.
The Herman Winter was l76S
tons, the Sydland, 1874 tons.
An Atlantic Port. Aug. l2.-Sixty
fishermen, including crews of nine
hshlng schooners, sunk by a Ger
man submarine off Georges Bank,
are afloat in dories in the Atlantic
ocean, according to word brought
here early today by four survivors
OF the attack, rescued by the auxil-
iary schooner Helen Marley.
According to rescued fishermen.
a fleet of 80 sailing vessles was at
tackled Saturday night by the SUBJ
marine, several making their escape
before the submarine could make
ready to sink the ships.
Boston, August l2.-Fifteen sur
vivors of the Swedish steamer Syd-
land arrived here today and report
ed their vessel had been sunk bv a
German submarine Saturday. Fiji
teen others of the crew were picked
up by another ship.
Washington. Aug. l2-The navy
was advised today that the American
schooner Herman Winter had been
sunk Saturda in the same general
locality as the other vessels. There
is no record here of a schooner of
that name. An American coastwise
steamer named Herman Winter is
reported safe in port.
Gloucester. Mass. Aug. l2.-Fish-
ermen claim to have identified the
commander OF a German submarine
which has been sinking fishing boats
as skilled navigator formerly in
the United States fisheries service.
Two men from different schooners
that were sunk. claim to have recog-
nized former acquaintance who
had changed little except that he had
grown beard since they last saw
him.
An Atlantic Port, Aug. IA
British merchant steamer was sunk
recently off the north Atlantic coast
according to the second officer Of
the German submarine which sent
nine fishing schooners to the bottom
off Georges banks Saturday and
Sunday. This report was given
members of the crew of the Kate
Palmer. a fishing schooner. when
they were taken aboard the U-boat.
The fishermen did not learn the
name OF the Britisher. but were in
formed that she had two smoke
stacks. The men were brought here
early today aboard the auxiliary
schooner. Helen Murley.
The crew OF the Palmer. report
ed that probably thirty vessels were
in the immediate vicinity at the
time of the attack. They said they
heard firing nearly all day Saiur-
day. They were ordered alongside
the submarine. taken aboard and
kept below for about an hour while
the submarine proceeded in a west
erly direction. Later they were told
to get into their dory and were cast
adrift. They were picked up five
hours later by the Murley.
They did not see their schooner
sunk. hut assumed she was de-
stroyed by bomb.
The fishermen reported that the
submarine was 800 feet long and
carried a crew Of about "a. A six
inch gun was mounted forward and
4 smaller one astern. The secosl
officer told them that the submers,-
bic could make p knots on the sur
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