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Show MYSTERY SHIP IN IE ATLANTIC Suspicious Vessel Is Again Reported Re-ported Off the Coast Near Newport. BOSTON, April 8. A suspicious vessel ves-sel off Nantuckot lightship was reported re-ported to the Boston navy yard by a British vessel today. The message said : "Sighted suspicious vessel or object forty-five miles south, six degrees west true, from Nantucket light vessel at 3:15 a. m. today. (Signed) "BRITISH VESSEL." Liter the position of the mysterious vessel was given as latitude -10.15 north, longitude G9.2S west, almost due south from the shoals. The report of a mysterious craft in the steamship lane to Europe was the second to be announced officially within with-in 2-1 hours. Yesterday the lightship sent word of "a commerce raider" of 10,000 tons burden, passing westward. That another craft sighted today was the samo descriptions naval officials declined to state. The Nantucket shoals are only 85 miles east of the naval base at Newport. New-port. There are reports today from widely separated sources that a raider raid-er had been sunk off Nantucket by a destroyer or submarine. To queries on all such stories naval men bad only ono answer: "We can say nothing about it." No report of any victims of a raid In these waters have been received so far as known. Prompt action by the navy yesterday in getting get-ting all shipping under cover effectively effec-tively cleared the coast of prey. Shipping moved more freely today owing to clear weather. Naval officials tonight were interested inter-ested in comparing the position given as that of the "mysterious vessel or object" with reports made first on Friday Fri-day and again tonight, of tho presence of a derelict schooner in the same waters. wa-ters. The positions differed only slight-' ly. The schooner N. E. Ayer recently was abandoned off the coast. oo |