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Show SEVEN AMERICAN Returning to Destroyer When Boat Capsizes in Heavy Sea. PARIS, Dec. 8. One oft'icer ar.d six men of the American destroyer Lansdale were drowned Saturday when attempting to rejoin their ship, according to a Havas dispatch from Tangier. They were of a party of thirty officers and men who had spent the afternoon in the Moroccan seaport and were returning return-ing to the Lansdale when the boat capsized cap-sized In a heavy sea. The destroyer Lansdalo was launched at Qutncy, Mass., July 22 last. The destroyer de-stroyer was named in memory of Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Phillip Vanhorn Lansdale, U. S. N., who was killed while suppressing an insurrection In Samoa in 1899. |