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Show SUBMARINE SINKS lERIGraMER OIL TANKER ATTACKED OFF SCILLY I8LANDS AND SENT TO THE BOTTOM. Of the Crew of Sixty-three, All Are Saved Except Three, the Captain Cap-tain Dying of Heart Failure as Result of the Shock. London. The American oil tank steamship Gulfllght was torpedoed off BIshop-8 lighthouse, Scllly Islands, at noon on Saturday by a German submarine. sub-marine. Tho vessel was badly damaged dam-aged and tho crow was landed at Scllly by a patrol boat. Of tho crow of thlrty-slx thlrty-threo wore saved. Two Jumped 'overboard and wero drowned, nnd tho captain later died of heart falluro aB a result of tho Bhock. Tho vessel was picked up by steam drifters, which towed lt into Crow sound, whero it waB beached. Tho Gulfllght was laden with naphtha naph-tha from Port Arthur to Rouen. Tho French steamer Europo also was torpedoed by a submarino and sunk off tho Scllly Islands. Tho submarino sub-marino ordered tho crow to tako to tho boats, and then fired several shells into tho ship. The steamer did not sink from tho effects of these, so tho submarino launched n torpedo, which sent her to tho bottom. Tho crew of the Europe was picked up by a fishing smack and landed In Cornwall, Corn-wall, England. The Europo was bound from Barry to SL Lazalre with coal. Tho British steamer Fulgent was sunk off Skelltng rocks, southwest of County Kerry, Ireland, In tho dark Sundy morning, also by a German submarine. |