Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1918-08-22
NAVY CREW CHASES
U.B0AT THAT STOLE
TRAWLER TRIUMPH
Submersible Seizes Craft
and Converts Her Into
Armed Raider.
PREY ON FISHING SMACKS
OFF GRAND BANKS COAST
Speedy Patrols Are Rushed to
Scene to Wreck the
Destroyers.
CLAIM THREE ARE OVER HEHt;
noinDs and Gunfirc Are Used to Sink
Schooner Lucille Sci,nnrc and
Possibly Others.
CLAIM THREE ARE OVER nEHu
bombs and Gunfirc Are Used to Sink
Schooner Lucille Sci.nnrc and
Possibly Others.
LRy Associated rro.s-1-

department. officials tonight confident
awaited a wireless dispatch telling
oi the capture or destruction Of the
trd"lcr Triumph. which was seized by
German submarine yesterday a crew
put ABOARD. the vessel armed and started
oh raiding expedition against the de-
ienseleSs fleet OF fishing smacks onor
dlng on the Grand Banks. Every nre
.autlon has been taken. * Was said
70 prevent the raider slipping through
region. "'"'"s
Ihc department, through Admiral
enson ,at section, requested the news
naapehrs 10 make no mention Of the type
81 the craft employed i'm the hunt II
Is said, however. that these are mum
arous as and swift enough to make the
vessel unless the captain chooses 10
combat 't u"eHua'
1t Is suggested that the submarine
commander hardly expects his new AS
sociate TO remain for more than twcn
ahiu Ghitout hours. !, was said that prob
,hes m, .ne prize would be sunk SO that
.ne patrol would find It necessary TO
continue the hunt for sevcrap iays.
un,s would result the German officers
along the Grand Banks, lesseninp The
strength OF the coast guard at other
pS9iin,its. pSHi,t::. The answer made TO this pos
sibl!ity Is that adequate forces are now
IN service al every vital point 10 pro-
INC only dispatch received by the
department. to-day concerning the
newest maneuver OF the German sub
marine. aotilla Off the American coast.
dnr as a, q brief RE message message from the comman-
uer OF Inc ErSt naval district at Bos-
ton This district merely confirmed
the landing of the captain and crew
oi ths Triumph and reiterated the story.
told by these sailors. Six hours earlier
this Information was given to the
Navy Department. through press dis
patches and was flashed BY naval wire
Ia or,
forces In the vicinity.
GOVERNMENT TO PROTECT
FISHING INTEREsTS At ONCE
The department. has taken steps to
raid" Admiral Benson said He en-
pressed the opinion that il would be
tied time At their disposal 10 equip the
Triumph properly as a raider. such
task, he pointed out, would occupy
the New York Navy-Yard nearly Il
With a crew of seventeen men, how
eyer, armed with revolyers and a ma
chine gun or two, the Triumph would
number of small craft The maxi
mum military advantage the German
can hope TO obtain. II was held was
the depletion OF the supply OF canned
fish for the army.
Admira! Benson refused TO place
much credcncc in the declaration made
by the submarine commander to the
captain Of the Triumph that six U-boats
now are operating in American waters.
tion regarding. the activities of these
craft has convinced naval officials that
only three have been actively engaged
SCHOONER SCHNAnE SUNK
BY BOMB AND GCNEIRE.
Reports received by tho Navy De-
partment tonight tell of the sinking
Of the hshin!g schooner Lucille Schnarc
Ct Sfo,is Lianenbers enas, dI;n =; C. off the Nova
the trawler Triumph. manned by a
German crew: Both bombs and gunfre
wsfe rec tpe ep &c Dir to advises
landed to- night at canso. =. S.
Members Of the Schnare crew enter
schooner Pasadena ahich was lin the
same vicinity when the Schnare Went
10 the bottom tom, AlthSugh they did not
expressed the opinion that she was
sunk after the the Germans had finished
received from the Pasadena crew late
'0sa,spihi stsssling of the trawler Triumph
sea The German crew. after the cap
ture mounted two guns on the craft,
manned her with sixteen German
smacks along the Nova Scotia coast.
Vessels known TO have been sunk
hy the converted raider are the Una S.
Saunders, Of Lunenburg,, the y. Pratt
Andrews. Of Gloucester. Mass. and the
Francis j. O'Aara. of Boston
Captain Wallace Bruce, master of
the a. Pratt Andrews. said on his ar
rival that this vessel was held up
by the Triumph yesterday afternoon.
and that he and his crew were given
Germans then sank her with bombs.
The raider then bore down upon tho
Una p. Saunders and the Francis J.
OHara and sunk them likewise.
Captain Myhre. master of the Tri-
umph, said he was told by the
captain of the submarine which cap
tured his vessel that he was only one
of six U-boats operating on this coast.
"We Intend to destroy the fishing
Geets." the German commander said to
Captain Myhre.
Captain Myhre and his crew were
taken aboard the submarine yesterday
afternoon and photographed by the
Germans. who offered them refresh
ments and cigarettes. They said they
started for shore. sixty miles away,
late in the afternoon. Before they
guns on the Triumph, fore and aft, and
fitted up small wireless apparatus.
The triumph then set off In company
with the submarine to hunt for fish
ing vessels in the vicinity.