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Show 1 10 'VESSELS ARE i ITIMSTEEUTOIS j LONT'ON", Jan. SO. The transport and the fleet auxiliary which were sank early j this month In the Mediterranean, as an-f an-f nour.ced in the house of commons last, t week, were the Ara-gon and the Os- mani-rh. An official statement concerning the sinking of these vessels says; The fan 5 port Aragon. Captain Francis Eateman, commanding, wa s torpedoed and sank in the eastern 1 M e d : t e rri n ea n on D e c e rr. b 3 . A Frh.:sh descoyer while picking up j survivors from the Aragon was her-I her-I self torptrioed and sunk, as reported j January 7. I The mercantile fleet auxiliary- C?- nianieh, Iieuttnant Commarider'p. R. j Mason commanding, struck a mir.a j and sank, approximately in the s.am-3 locality. December 31. These are tn vessels refen-ed to in the house of commons on January 2Z. The casualties on the Aragon were: Officers. 4: crew, 15; military officers, i": soldiers. 5S1. Os ma nieh : Officers, 3 ; crew, i ; military officers. 1 ; soldiers, I6r; female fe-male nurses. S. Both captains were among those lost. Thomas J. MacNamara, financial secretary sec-retary of the admiralty, announced in the r.ouse of commons iast Wednesday that TIS lives had been lost by the sinking- in the Mediterranean of two" steamships. "the names of which he did not disclose. The British steamship Aragon, tons gross and 513 feet long. Vas built in Belfast in 1?05 and was operated bv the Royal Mail Steam Packet companv of Belfast before being taken over by "the British admiralty. The British steamship Osmanieh, 4041 tons gross and 360 feet Jong, was built in 1&05 and was owned in London. |