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Show AMERICAN SHIP IS ABANDONED Crew Leaves When U-Boat Shells Schooner Off Coast of Spain. WASHINGTON, April 14. The Am-erican Am-erican schooner Edwin R. Hunt of New York was abandoned by her crew under shell fire from a sumbarino near Cape Gata, Spain, In the Mediterranean Mediterrane-an April 7, according to a dispatch to the state department from Consul Gas-set Gas-set at Malaga. Consul Gasset's message said: "American schooner Edwin R. Hunt of New York, Nicholas Miller, master, with crew of eight, bound from Crette to New York in ballast, shelled by submarine at 4 a. m. April 7, forty miles off Capo Gata. Ship abandoned by crew under fire, fate unknown. Crew all saved, brought to Almeria by Danish schooner Konso." |