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Show BRITISH VESSEL if LOST OFFJRELAND MERCHANT VESSEL VIKNOR BELIEVED BE-LIEVED TO HAVE BEEN STRUCK BY MINE LAID BY GERMANS. Vessel Had Been Mi 3sing Several Days When Some of the Bodies and Wreckage Washed Ashore and Loss Became Known. London. It was officially announced at the admiralty Monday that the British Brit-ish annored merchant vessel Viknor had been lost off Ireland with all hands. The vessel, it was stated, either struck a mine or foundered. The admiralty, In its statement, says: "She has been missing for some lays, and must now be accepted as lost, with all her officers and men. The cause of ner loss is uncertain, but as some bodies and wreckage have been washed ashore on the north coast of Ireland, it is presumed that during the recent bad weather she either foundered or, being carried out of her course, struck a mine in seas where the Germans are known to have laid them." The Viknor was formerly the Viking, Vik-ing, and was commandeered by the admiralty on December 12. She was In charge of Commander Ernest O. Ballantyne. The number of her crew cannot be ascertained. |