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Show MORE DHITiSII STEAMERS SENT TOTHTTOI Three of Crew of the Tura-kina Tura-kina Killed When Tor- pedo From German U-Boat Explodes. VESSEL ON WAY TO NEW YORK FOR OIL Only Three Italian Steamers Steam-ers Sunk During Week Ending Sept. 2, Says Official Report. AN ATLANTIC PORT, Sept. 8. News of the destruction of (he 8492-ton 8492-ton British steamship Turakina by a torpedo from a German submarine on August 13 was brought hero today by sovcral membors of hor crew who arrived ar-rived on an American passenger ship from Cireat Britain. She had but re-rently re-rently landed at a British port a detachment de-tachment of 1200 iSew Zealand troops ;ind was on her way 'to Now York to t;i lie .1 cargo of oil. According to Charles West, refriger-i refriger-i ator enginocr of the ship, three luem-i luem-i i hers of the crew lost their lives from the explosion of the torpedo. Tho i others, soventy-two in all, escaped in lifeboats and wore picked up eight hours later by a British destroyer. The attack occurred about eighteen miles nut, nud, although tho Turakina was armed, thero was no chance to use the guns, as the U-boat did not show her-.solf. her-.solf. The vessel was owned by tho New Zealand Shipping company and was luiilt in T.I02 at NewCastlo, England. Tho British steamship llolphic, of S273 tons, one of tho White- Star lino fleet, has been sunk by a German submarine, sub-marine, according to word recoived to- iny. Tho sinking occurred August 15, iliu advices state, some distance off the Irish coast and while the vessel was under armed convoy. All the crew were saved. Advices from tho same source also reported that tho British Bteamship Middlesex, formerly known as the Knight Bachelor, a vessel of 72o'4 tons, likewise under convoy, had been sunk about tho samo time as was the Delphic. Del-phic. The Middlesex was built in 1014 at Glasgow and was owned by the federal Steam Navigation company of London.. |