Salt Lake Telegram | 1916-02-27 | Page 6 | Four British Ships Carry Score to Death

fOUR BRITISH SHIPS CARRY SCORE TO TOI I DEATH DE AT H j. j t By nr United f Press mess LONDON Feb Four 26 Four British steamers have been sunk In the past 24 hours with the loss of perhaps a score score of af lives The Wilson liner Dido was the largest largest larg larg- E est st victim Advices rec received lv d here to tonight tonight tonight to- to night night said the chief officer er and two of the crew rew have haYe been landed but that other members of the crew crON are re missing and unaccounted for Later dispatches reported the sinking sinking sink sink- ing of ot the British steamer Fastnet displacing 2227 2221 tons and owned at London Landon S Seven ven of r tl the e. e crew clew of the steamer Tummel which also was wag sunk are re missing missing miss miss- ing and two survivor survivors died after atter being landed The crew of the the steamer steamer DanabY Danaby Dan- Dan aby was rescued The Dido displaced tons arid and was built in 1896 at Hull Hutt She was four tour hundred feet long with a 48 foot toot beam She wa was owned owned by T T. Wilson Sons t So So owners of ot a large fleet of at liners iners and was rE registered at Hull Hun flying flying fly fly- ing the British flag