Highland recorder. (Monterey, Highland County, Va.) 1877-1972, 1918-07-12
u BOAT sinks
HOSPITAL SHIP
Vessel, With Red Cross Lights,
Torpedoed at Night With
out Warning.
IA NURSES LOST AT SEA.
U Boat Chief Sought to Sink Without
Leaving Trace-Charged Ship Was
Carrying Seven American
Filters.
IA NURSES LOST AT SEA.

London.-A German submarine 70
miles from the Irish coast on the night
of June q torpedoed the 1000 tpn
hospital ship Llandovery Castle, which
had beo~ "hortered by the Canadian
government and had been in the serv-
ice of carrying wounded and sick from
England to Canada for many months
past.
The ship was ON her way to Eng
land with 25S persons on board, includ-
ing so men Of the Canadian Army Med
ical Corps and II women nurses.
Only 81 of those on board, including
the captain, survived the attack, which
came without warning.
The commander of the destroyer
Lysander, which picked up the only
hoatload rescued, which included the
captain, telling Of the circumstances
CT the sinking as he learned them
from the survivors, made it quite clear
that this was another instance of sink
ing at sight and that it was obviously
intended to follow the policy Of "leave
no trace" for when last seen the SUBJ
marine was apparently shelli.g In the
darkness one Of the seven boats
launched.
One boat, in which there were IL
nursing sisters, was seen to capsiZe.
The sisters were thrown out and were
either drowned directly or caught be-
meath the boat. A Canadian sergeant
who was in the same boat managed to
crawl on the keel.
Nothing has been seen of the re-
manning five boats. Whether or not
they had been destroyed by shell fire,
the commander of the Lysander could
not say. The submarine was OBJ
served charging wreckage, on which
might have been survivors, and in the
locality where it was likely some of
the boats were drifting.
Moreover, the submarine steamed
swiftly toward the captains boat con-
tanning the survivors and passed just
astern. Ordinarily such maneuver
would capsize a small boat.
How the little craft with the nurses
was swamped is also described. Not
far from the stern of the sinking YES
sci, when the latter sank stern first,
the boat was carried down by the
whirlpool created. The commander
of the Lysander, describing the
fcrocity Of the submarine commander,
said: 1.-THE Canadian sergeant was
dazed with the buffetiIs he had re-
ceived and was badly bruised. When
the overturned boat got near the SUBJ
marine the sergeant climbed aboard
in a very exhausted condition. He
thought it was rescue, but he was
seized by one of the submarine Off
GERS and thrown back like handbag.
"After the submarine charged into
the wreckage." he continued, from
what l have heard I firmly believe
that the submarine tried to RAM the
survivors boat, and thought it had
done so.
"As far as can he ascertained one
stoker was observed on the upper
deck just as the ship was disappear
Ing. We have since been cruising in
The neighborhood, but not a speck
Of wreckage Of any kind was seen. 1t
must, of course, be remembered that
it was long time after the event that
any naval craft got on the spot. The
wreckage might have drifted away.
but none has been discovered.
Neither have we been able to find any
trace of the missing boats"