Show BOIT 1611 VESSEL IS poff IRELAND MERCHANT VESSEL BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN STRUCK 14 by bv MINE LAID OY BY GERMANS 4 ool had been mixing severe several 11 day days when some sonic of the docile nd and wreckage washed arbore and loss lo 10 became known london 41 it wab was officially anno umed wod at ho the admiralty monday that tho brit ish armored merchant vessel bad had been lost ott off ireland with all hands the vessel it WAS stated either struck t r mine or foundered tho th admiralty in its statement says sho she has been marsing for some days and mutt now bo be accepted as lost with all her officers and inen the cause of nor lose loss is s uncertain but os an some and wreck wreckage have been washed ashore on the north coast of ireland it Is presumed that during the recent bad weather she either foundered or being carried out of her course truck struck a mine in seas where the germans are known to havo have laid them the was formerly the viking and was aas commandeered by the admiralty on december 12 she waa was in chargo charge of commander ernest 9 Dallan ryne tho the number of ot her crew cannot be ascertained |