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Show SENT T0B0TT0M One of Largest Oil Ships Ever Built Torpedoed Off Irish Coast. NEW YORK, April 1C The British tank stetimshlp Narragnnsett, a ship of 9196 tons and one of tho largest carriers of bulk oil ever built, has been torpedoed and sunk somowhere off tho Irish coast, according to word brought hero today by officers on a British ship. The Narragnnsett was owned by the Anglo-American Oil company, represented repre-sented hero by E. A. Enmes. At the offices of tho company it was said no word of the vessel had been received, although several reports that sho had met with disaster had reached here from unofficial sources. The Narragansett was last reported when she left hero for a British port on March 5. She was built in 1903 at Greenock, Scotland, was 512 feet long and could carry 11,000 tons of oil. |