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Show SWEDISH SHIP IS SUNK BY GERMANS SIX OF CREW PERISH AND FOURTEEN FOUR-TEEN REACH LAND AFTER VESSEL IS TORPEDOED. Steamer Displayed National Colors and Had Her Name and Nationality National-ity Painted on Her Sides in Large Letters. Hull. Fourteen survivors of the crew of the Swedish steamer Hanna, which was torpedoed by a submarine off Scarborough on the coast of England, Eng-land, early Saturday were landed here by a steamer which picked them up. Six of the crew were either drowned or killed by the explosion. The second mate, who was on the bridge at the time of the attack, said that he did not see the submarine, which gave no noice of her intentions. inten-tions. He saw the torpedo approaching, approach-ing, but it was too late to maneuver the ship so as to avoid it. The explosion explo-sion caused the forepart of the deck to fall in, imprisoning several of the crew in the forecastle. The vessel floated for half an hour after being struck, giving the survivors surviv-ors time to take to the boats. The Hanna was bound from the Tyne for Las Pulmas, Canary islands. When torpedoed she was displaying her national colors, according to the survivors, and her name and nationality nation-ality painted on her sides in letters reaching from the bulwarks to the water line. Therefore, the rescued men declare, it was impossible for her to be mistaken for a British ship. |