Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-11-10 | Page 7 | Italian Ship Sunk; 100 Lives Are Lost

ITALIAN SUP SUNK; 100 LIVESARE LOST Ancona, Which Left New York Last Month, Was Large Steamer. (Special Cable by Arrangement with London Daily Telegraph ami Intruntloaal News Service. ) ROME, Nov. 0.The Italian steamship steam-ship Ancona, of S210 tons, with 339 steerage passengers aboard, has been sunk. One hundred lives are reported lost. The Ancona arrived from Genoa at New York on October 19. She was on her return trip when stink, presumably by a submarine. Captain Massardo was in eommand when tlie vessel left New York. The Aneona was a steel twin-screw .steamer of two decks and a spar deck, ant fitted with wireless. fShe was owned by the Italian linn (Sositc de Navigation Navi-gation e ;i Va pore) and regist ered at i Genoa. Who was built in Belfast in I I'.his. She was "i00 feet long and her capacity capac-ity for passengers in steerage was 2.0U. She had accommodations for only sixty first-class passengers. On her maiden voyage to A merit an ports in 190S ehe was hailed as a bi" i advance on the old-style steamers which formerly carried immigrants to these shores. Hhe plied between New "York, Philadelphia, Genoa and Naples.