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Show i M.EII SiOMQI Transport Strikes Mine in Brittish Waters; Survivors Survi-vors Are Landed. LONDON, March 15. Nine sailors are reported drowned in the sinking of the American naval transport Yselhaven. which struck a mine at 3:55 o'clock Friday Fri-day morning, according; to a report to Lloyd's. The Yselhaven was bound from Baltimore to Copenhagen. Thirty-fivo survivors have been landed at Hartlepool by a British steamer. The yselhaven measured "o-jS tons and was built in Rotterdam in 191H. She was taken over bv the United Slates ship-pins ship-pins board after the United Suites entered en-tered the war. She left Baltimoro on Fcbruarv 13 for Copenhagen. Tho sinking of the Yselhaven probably occurred in the NorUi sea, au Ilartlcpuoi, where the survivors were taken, is a port on the eastern coast of England. |