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Show THREE LOST WREN TANKER IS SUNK Officer and Two of Crew Die When American Ship Is Torpedoed. WASHINGTON, May1 22. Three men were lost in the sinking of the American tanker William Rockefeller, torpedoed in European waters' May ,18, the navy department de-partment announced today. Eleven officers offi-cers and sixty-one men were landed uninjured. un-injured. News of the sinking of the Rockefeller reached Washington yesterday, but no details de-tails were given. Today's announcement said: "The navy department has received a dispatch from Vice Admiral Sims staling that the tj. S. S. William Rockefeller was toipedoed and sunk by an enemy submarine subma-rine in European waters May lft Eater reports indicate that one engineer officer and two men of the engineer force were ! killed, names not yet known. Eleven officers of-ficers and sixty-one of the crew have-been J Janded. none seriously injured. "The William Rockefeller was an oil i j tanker Of "157 tons gross." |