New-York tribune., 1918-06-10
p;nar del Rio Torpe-
doed Saturday Morn
ing 20 Miles From
the Coast
Captain and II Men
Fail to Reach Port
l6 Members of Crew
Land in Virginia.;
Delaware Bay Is
Ordered Closed

WASHINGTON. June 9.-The Ameri-
can steamer Pinar del Rio vas sunk by
o German submarine seventy miles off.
the coast Of Maryland yesterday morn
tain and seventeen members of the
crew is missing. Another with sixteen
men has landed on the Virginia coast
According to members of the crew
who were landed at Norfolk the yes
sci was torpedoed Hope is held that
the missing lifeboat has been picked
up by some vessel or will turn up at
some point along the coast.
Until tonight the raiders had not
teen reported as showing themselves
since the Norwegian steamer Vinland
vas sunk off the Virginia Capes last
Wednesday evening at o'clock.
The destruction of the Pinax del Rio
some twenty-five miles nearer the
American coast than the point at which
the Harpathian was sunk Thursday ex-
piodes the theory held by some naval
offcers that the present submarine raid
was at an end and that the U-boats
had been, for the time at least, driven
'rOm American shores.
AssEme Ship Was Torpedoed
It is assumed that the vessel was
arpedoed. the method of attack en-
Poyed against the Harpathian. The
Navy Department had received no con-
'mation of rumor to- day that one
u me coastwise vessels out of New
i0Fk was overdue and unreported, the
implication being that she had suf-
iefed disaster at the hands OF the raid
"s. 1t was said that new measures
sken by the Navy Department to COM
ss' the submarines operating in Amer
.al waters may be responsible for the
Selay IN arrival of the vessel at her
estimation.
nent follows:
me American steamer Pinar del Rio
raS sunk by an enemy submarine on
sune 3, In the morning about seventy
s, eve miles off the coast of MARYLAND
IIM'een men in one boat have landed
aaother boa. with the captain and sew
sTaseen Tn men is still unaccounted fot.
.ae landing of the sixteen men was
~'oe on the Virginia coast"
commanded by Captain Mackenzie
Inc Pinar del Rio, owned by thu
ihnerican and Cuban Steamship Line.
iiac, was built at South Shields, Eng
sd sshd IN 1895, by J. Readhead & Son.
Iae mad a net tonnage OF 1907 and
sngth of 306 feet.
one was last listed as leaving an
"nerican s.s;.f Atlantic port on May II and
irving at Havana on May 18. She
Kenzie. oS Nap'a'' d. Wac
h.. All sinkings reported to the Navy
.epartment since the submarines left
A.. New Jersey coast district last Sun
~ nave occurred off the coasts Of
sssls'and and Virginia, with several of
'ym M due east Of Cape Henry.
AIS indicates that the U-boats are
,,ttsIng over a very limited area,
a,sSSaoiy OF not more than a few hun
w ~. square miles, but in a very i'm
"''ant shipping lane.
Naval Forces Concentrated
~se once 1t became known that the sub
A. '.nes were in this area naval and
;s..l lorces have concentrated their eff
rs s. mere. The task of bagging the
wolves even in so limited an area
suh. hos an easy one, as the vessels can
d,snefge and lie on the bottom until
~%Tger is past.
ssas aaasn, too, the suggestion has been
snS,. that the craft may have been
wv..s w.'as refuge at night in the many
nn;s and inlets along the Eastern Vir-
nssa ,shore line. There, it is believed,
y Crews breathing and resting spells.
o.. ar weather has prevailed along the
,sss ENC s'nee the Rio was sent down, and
ao NJ u the men in the missing boat are
rescued at sea they should be able
s,s sse ss land in day or two. They
a,sa already have landed at some iso-
"sinia coasts.