Salt Lake Tribune | 1917-02-19 | Page 1 | Submarines Sink 3 British Vessels

SMIIES SI Two Members of Crew of the Valdes Killed and Nine Are Missing. LONDON", Feb. 18, 5:05 p. m. Lloyd's shipping agency today announced an-nounced that the British steamship Worcestershire, of 7175 tons gross, was reported sunk. Lloyd's also announced that the Brit-1 ish. steamer Yaldes, of 22So tons gross,; had been torpedoed and sunk without warning. Two members of the vessel's crew were killed and nine are missing. The captain and others of the crew have been landed. Later the sinking of the British steamship Romsdaien, of 2548 tons gross, Tras announced. The Romsdalen was 300 feet long and was built at West Hartlepool in 3895. No late movements of the steamship Valdes have been recorded in the maritime mari-time registers. The vessel was built at Stockton in 1014 and hailed from Liverpool. She was 255 feet long, forty feet beam and twenty-four feet deep. The Worcestershire was on a voyage from Liverpool to Rangoon, India, and sailed from Suez January 12. She was 452 feet long and was built in Belfast in 1904. Her owners were the Bibby Steamship company of Liver-I Liver-I pool.