The Bridgeport times and evening farmer. (Bridgeport, Conn.) 1918-1924, 1918-08-12
go FISHERMEN
ADRIFT AFTER
U-BOAT ATTACK
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about o'clock Saturday night. They
were picked up five hours later by the
Murley.
They did not see their schooner
sunk, but assumed she was destroyed
by bomb.
The fishermen reported that the
submarine was 800 feet long and car
ried a crew of about 70 men. A six
inch gun was mounted forward and a
smaller astern. The second officer
told them the submarine could make
p knots on the surface.
Washington, Aug. 12-All the vess-
els are believed by naval officials to
have been accounted for by the u
boat which has been operating in
North Atlantic waters for two weeks
Or more. The Penistone was sunk
near Georges Bank, off the Massa-
chusetts coast, where some eleven
fishing boats were destroyed yester-
day.
Boston, Aug. 12-Fffteen survivors
of the Swedish steamer Sydland ar
rived here today and reported that
their vessel had been sunk by Ger
man submarine Saturday. Fifteen
others of the crew were picked up by
another ship.
Washington, Aug. 12-Destruction
of the British steamer Penistone and
the Swedish steamer Sydland by
German submarine off the New Eng
land coast, was reported today to the
Navy Department. The Penistone
was sent down yesterday about one
hundred miles east of Nantucket, and
the Syd1and on August southeast
| of Nantucket. No news Of the fate
of the crews was given in the de-
partment's despatch.
Washington Aug. 12-Later the
navy was advised that the American
schooner Herman Winter had been
sunk in the same general locality.
| There is no record here of schoon-
er Of that name. An American
cosstwise steamer named Herman
winter is reported safe in port
Gloucester, Mass, Aug. 12-Fisher-
men claim to have Identified the com
mander of a German submarine which
has been sinking fishing boats off the
| Atlantic coast as a skilled navigator
formerly in the United States fisheries
service- Two men from different
,sohooners that we're sunk claim to
have recognized a former acqua1nt-
ance who had changed little except
| that he had grown a beard since they
last saw him.
An Atlantic Port, Aug. 12-The
auxiliary schooner Albert Black, own
ed at Portland, Maine, was one of the
fishermen attacked by a German sub
marine off George Bank SATURDAY.
| caDtain Granville johnson reported
upon arrival here today that several
shells were fred at his craft at y
o'clock yesterday morning, one OF
which struck close by. The submarine
was three miles away. With the aid
of all her sails and auxiliary power,
the schooner escaped unframed with
her crew of ten.
New York, Aug. 12-Marine under
writer's today advanced war risks rates
on sailing vessels both for coastwise
and trans-ocean routes because of the
continued activity of U-boats in coast
al waters. Rates jumped to per
cent and in some cases to per cent:
for sailings between American ports
while tran-ocean rates were advanced
to 10 per cent by some underwriters.
| An Atlantic Port, Aug. 12-Subma-
rines:-Two steamers with survivors
Of vessels sunk by Gereman subma-
rines off the Massachusetts, coast, re-
ported today that they were proceed
| ing to port, but the number aboard
or the names of the ships were not
stated
| washington, Aug. 12-German sub
marine raiders operating off the North
Atlantic coast have destroyed three
more vessels, the Navy department to-
day announced.
The British steamer Penistone, OF
4,139 gross tons, was torpedoed 100
miles east of Nantucket hghtship yes
terday morning; the Swedish steamer
Sydland, of 3,031 tons gross, was sunk
on August s, 100 miles southeast OF
Nantucket and an American schooner
reported as the Herman Winter, but
whose identity has not been definiately
established, was destroyed by gunfre
yesterday, two hundred miles east OF
New York. All members Of the crew
of the Syd1and were reported saved
but the Navy Department did not
clear up the fate of the crews Of the
other vessels.
The Penistone and the Herman
! Winter were sent down in the vicinity
of Georges Bank, off the Massachu.
sets coast, where a submarine came
to the surface Sunday in the mids
of fleet of American fishing vessels
I nine OF which were destroyed.
Later reports to the Navy depart.
8 ment revealed that the despatch relat
y ing to the Herman Winter. had beer
7 garbled in transmission. The coastine
! boat Herman Winter had reported
D that ship had been sunk on Sunda,
! off the Massachusetts coast. Tn,
name Of the craft was not given.
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