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Show TORPEDO SINKS A PATROL BOAT Officer and 20 Men Are Missing Miss-ing First U. S. Warship War-ship Lost. WASHINGTON, Nov. G. Tup American Amer-ican patrol boat Alcedo was torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine in the war zone, early Monday morning and one officer and twenty men are. missing. The Alcedo. a converted' yacht, carried a crew of seven officers and eighty-five men The navy department announced the disaster tonight in this statement . "The navy department has been advised ad-vised by Vice Admiral Sims that at 1:30 a. m., November 5, the American patrol boat Alcedo, a. converted yacht, wa torpedood and sunk by a German submarine in the war zone. One officer and twenty men are missing. The ship sank In four minutes after being struck. Several vessels were searching search-ing for possible survivors at the time the report was made. The Alcedo enr-ried enr-ried a crew of seven officers and eighty-five men." The Alcedo is the first American war vessel to go down in the war. The destroyer Cassln on patrol duty was torpedoed recently, but she made port safely with the loss of only one man. No details of "the engagement vwore given in tha brief dispatch announcing the yacht's loss. The navy department announced that the following members of the Al-cedo's Al-cedo's crew were still unaccounted for: Lieutenant (junior grade) John T. Melvin, Selma, Ala. E. R. Gozzett, seaman, Astoria, Long Island. James J. Cleary, seaman, White Plains, N. Y. R. Wesche, seaman, Brooklyn. 11. W. Riker, seaman, Brooklyn. W. R.. Holler, seaman, Now" York City. J. W. Brunkherdt, seaman, Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. Luther O. Weaver, seaman, Brooklyn. Brook-lyn. John Wvnne. Jr.. seaman. Nnw Ynrfc City. P. Harrison, mess attendant, Tvler, Ala. F. W. Fingering, fireman, Jorsev City. N. J. Allen T. Edwards, seaman, Jackson,' N. C. C. F. Gaus, seaman, Jamaica, Long Islandi V. W. Harrington, seaman, Ashland, Okla. W. U. Surratt, seaman, North Fork, W. Va. W. W. Smock, seaman, father Dr. Smock, Des Moines, Iowa. S. J. Towle, seaman, Jamaica, Long Island. J. R. Daniel, seaman, DUrllnglon, S. C. II. A. PacciaJio, bollermaker, Endi-cott, Endi-cott, N. Y. Frank W. Higgins, yeoman (naval reserve), re-serve), Staten Island, N. Y. Robert McCray (colored), seaman Charleston, S- C |