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Show Standard Oil Steamship E l Sent Down Off 11 Virginia. ! OTHER VESSELS SUNK Crews Landed on the 11 Nova Scotian jl Coast. I j WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 Sinking oC 1 jl the American tank steamer O. B. Jen- II nings yesterday 100 miles off the Vir- fl glnia coast announced today, revealed Rj II tho presence of at least two German jl submarines on this side of the Atlan-' 1 l The second raider has been operat-i jjwl ing the coast of Nova Scotia and near-1 jMl by waters for several days. jnl The Steamship O. B. Jennings was jlfl sunk by a German submarine yester- MM , day afternoon and thirty survivors oC fl . the vessel's crew have been brought ;9 to Norfolk by a naval vessel, the navy jH department was today informed. Tie Jill captain and one boat containing tir- vim teen members of the crew aro missing. Bill Wireless calls from the steamer li-l saying that she was being shelled by l a submarine, were received yesterday Bfrfl between 11 o'clock and noon. Naval S iM vessels were sent at once but arrived II only in time to pick up survivors, the HI vessel having gone down. The Jen- , nings which was built in 1917, was of , 7.S90 net tons and belonged to tho J Standard Oil company. li TlireeFishing Schooners Sunk I HALIFAX, N. S., Aug. 4 Three American fishing schooners were sunk K by German submarines off .Seal Is- f land, Yarmouth county, on the Nova 1 Scotia coast yesterday. The crews ji landed on the Nova Scotia coast today. ; j The commander of one submarine It told an American skipper that he had sunk more American schooners hailing S ! from Boston and Gloucester Friday af- K tcrnoon. He did not give the names E of the vessels or mention what became r of tho crews. f t The names of the schooners sunk I Saturday afternoon are tho Rob Roy, Captain Freeman Crowell; Annio M. f Perry, Captain James Goodman and L the Muriel, Captain E. Nickerson. The crews came ashore in dories today at Wood's Harbor, Shelbourne, Lockport I and other points along the coast NEW YORK, Aug. 5. There wero I forty-nino men on board the tank j steamship, O. B. Jennings, torpedoed J and sunk by a submarine off the Vir- glnia coast yesterday according to the i records of the Standard Oil company I1 here. The captain, G. W. Nordstrom of Brooklyn, and 17 men, are unaccounted unaccount-ed for. Jennings' Second Disaster. ' NEW YORK, Aug. 5. This is the second appearance of tho O. B. Jen- i nings in the marine casualty news this year. On March 24 the tanker collided off the British coast with the ; British steamship War Knight, also oil laden, and thirty -seven lives were :) lost ; The Jennings, afire, was shelled by British warship, until her lecks were awash. She was salvaged by wreck- ! ing tugs in tho service of tho United f Slates forces abroad and was on her l way to a United States shipyard when I sunk. She was valued at more than f Sl.000,000. !. Submarine Chaser Sunk i WASHINGTON, Aug. 5 Sinking of l submarino chaser No. 1S7 in a" collision collis-ion with another vessel last night near Hog island, off tho Virginia coast, was reported today by tho navy dopartj mcnt All members of the crow were rescued. j |