Salt Lake Telegram | 1936-07-22 | Page 8 | Hope Vanishes for Lost Ship

HOPE VANISHES FOR LOST SHIP TAMPA TAMP FIa Fla July 22 ff Hope P-Hope Hope of ot finding alive the 22 persons aboard the British Nun- Nun coa COlt faded today at the tho discovery of traces of a ships ship's cargo nearly miles from tho the missing ve vessels vessel's sels sel's course Coast guardsmen found a charred piece of timber fastened to an oil drum which they said strengthened the belief that the was shattered by an explosion The Tho ship has not been heard from since she set out July 4 from Grand Cayman Island for Tampa under command of Captain Moses I. I Kirk Kirk- connell Captain Cecil M. M Gabbett divisional divisional divi divi- coast guard commander di dl directing directing di- di an extensive hunt for the foot nO-foot craft said he was by the tho American consul at nt Georgetown Georgetown Georgetown George George- town Grand Cayman ayman tho the loaded 60 Texas oil containers in its hold before leaving leavin The Tho drum picked up was WM marked Texas Com Corn pany Provisions for only about six days and water for not more than 11 days were carried by the which usually made the voyage voyage from Georgetown to Tampa in five live days at the most Captain J J. L. L Eden veteran sea seaman seaman seaman man whose year old son son Harold was a passenger s said id he heh h had d not given up hope despite the belief belie of some there thero may have been an explosion Fire has been my ray fear all along he said and I was told that on on onono one ono trip the had three fires But no bo boat t could burn and leave no wreckage and it wouldn't burn burnso so fast tast th that t someone on board would not get off in lifeboats