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Show Canard Line Lost 15 Vessels During the War NEW YORK, Nov. 23. Fifteen steamships aggregating 20G.7G9 gross tons, were lost by the Cunard line during dur-ing the period of the war, it wns learn - ed here today. Of there, all except two were classed as war losses, having been sunk by torpedoes or mines. The Campagnia and the Ascanla were lost through accidents. The tonnage sunk represents approximately one-half of that possessed by the line at the outbreak out-break of the war in 1914. Nearly all of the Cunard lines were well known Atlantic At-lantic greyhounds, the largest of which was the Lusitania, torpedoed May 7, 1915. The Anchor line, a subsidiary of tho company, also lost heavily, eight ships, Including tho 14.340 ton Tuscania, falling fall-ing victims to the German sea depredations, depre-dations, the total tonnage loss of this line being G5.18S. oo I |