Salt Lake Tribune | 1918-06-08 | Page 4 | One More Ship Sent down by German U- Boat

IE ME SHIP SEW II 81 GERMANJJ-BQAT Nineteen Survivors of Norwegian Nor-wegian Steamer Vinland Landed at Cape May by Destroyer. j OTHER RAIDERS ; . MAY CROSS OCEAN 1 Possibility Regarded as a 1 Continuing Factor in 1 American War 1 ' Measures. t 1 . 1 CAPE MAY, X. J., June 7. Nineteen i survivors of the Norwegian steamer i Vinland, sunk this morning by a Ger- man submarine, forty-six miles off Cape ' Mav, were landed here late this after- j noon bv a torpedo boat destroyer. I The survivors, all members of the i Vinland 's crew, were taken to the hos- i pitai at AVissahickon barracks. The destroyer de-stroyer that picked them up was a new ' boat, and was on her trial trip. : The members of the crew were mostly I Swedes and Norwegians and speak little . English. It was gathered from them ! that the Vinland was northbound with : a cargo of sugar. The coast was fog- : bound, and there were showers and ! squalls when the U-boat made its ap- : pearance. XEW YORK, June 7. The Vinland i was a schooner rigged steamer, owned bv O. and A. Irgens company, of Bergen, : and commanded bv Captain Bratland. She, was built in Bergen in 19tR, with a gross tonnage of llfo and a length of -2S feet. She was last listed as having arrived at an American Atlantic port on May 11.