Show BRITISH VESSEL IS LOST OFF IRELAND MERCHANT VESSEL BELIEVED TO HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY MINE LAID BY GERMANS vessel had been M llna assing several days when n some of the bodies and wreckage washed ashore and loss became known london it was officially announced at the tha admiralty monday that thaD theuret rIt ilah dih armored merchant vessel eliad been lost on oft ireland with all hands the vessel it was stated alther struck a mine or foundered th tha admiralty in its statement says she has ha been missing for borne tonys and must now be accepted as float cost av with ith all her officers and men tho the cause of ner loss Is uncertain but as some bodies and wreckage have been washed ashore ou on the north oart coast of ireland it Is presumed that during the tha recent bad weather she ahe either foundered or being carried out of her cour course struck a mine in seas where the germans are known to have laid them the tha was formerly the ing and was commandeered by the admiralty on december 1 12 she was in charge of commander eruest ernest 0 the number of her crew cannot be ascertained |