Ogden Daily Standard | 1916-01-20 | Page 1 | British Sight Burning Craft

New York. Jan 20 The British steamer Penistone arrived today from Havre and reported having sighted on the night of January 2 a vessel on fire at latitude 47.0S north, longitude 2S16 west. The Penistone steamed around the burning ship during the night in a vain search for lifeboats. Soon after daylight, the officers said, they mado out the burning craft to be a sailing ship which had a Norwegian Nor-wegian flag painted on her starboard side. The Penls'lone again steamed around the vessel, which had almost burned to the water's edge, but failed to find any trace of lifeboats or rafts.