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Show THREE BRITISH SHIPS ARE SUM Also a Norwegian Vessel Put Down by a German Un- dersea Craft London, April 2, 11:47 p. m. The British liner Achilles was sunk Friday. Fri-day. Four members of her crew are missing. The captain and 62 other persons from the steamer have been landed. Tho Achilles was in tho trade between be-tween Australia and England. She was a vesesl of 7042 tons gross and owned by the Ocean Steamship company com-pany of Liverpool. She sailed from Sydney, N, S. W January 19, for London and Liverpool. The last report re-port of the Achilles shows that she left Capetown, where she had evidently evident-ly cut In on tho voyage, March 6. Tho British steamer Gold Mouth has been sunk and her crew, two members of which were suffering from injuries, was landed at Penzance, Penz-ance, says a Lloyd's dlspatoh from that place dated Saturday. The Gold Mouth was of 7416 tons groBS. She was 471 feet long and was owned by the Anglo-Saxon Petroleum Petro-leum company of London, She probably prob-ably was in the government service. Latest shipping records give her sailing sail-ing from Port Arthur, Tex., October 28, and Norfolk, November 4, for Dartmouth. The British steamship has been sunk by shrapnel shells fired by a German submarine. Five members of the crew have been taken to a hospital. hos-pital. Tho vessel, according to the Exchange Ex-change Telegraph company was not armed. The' ABhburton sailed from New Zealand, February 23, for London and was last reported as leaving Monte-vedio, Monte-vedio, Uruguay, March 1. The vessel was 4445 tons gross and was built in 1905 for the Australlnd Steamship company of London. She was 392 feet long, 50 feet beam and. 26 feet deep. Lloyd's reports that the Norwegian steamship Poter Hamre was sunk Saturday night, while at anchor. One man, the sole survivor of the crew of fifteen, has been landed from the Kentish Knock lightship. The Peter Hamre had a tonnage of 1080 gross and was 234 feet long. She was owned by S. Tonnesen & Co., of Bergen, Norway. |
