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Show Four Firemen and Engineer of Ship Penistone Killed NANTUCKET, Mass., Aug. 15 The British steamer Penistone, victim of a submarine attack 100 miles east of Nantucket Sunday was sunk without warning, Benjamin Davles, executive officer of the ship reported on arrival ar-rival here today with other survivors. A torpedo fired that close range hit the vessel amidships killing the fourth engineer and Injuring four firemen. The captain of tho Penistone, who returned re-turned to his ship just before she went down in the hopo of obtaining his pa-pors, pa-pors, was captured by the U-boat and kept aboard, a prisoner of war. NANTUCKET, Mass., Aug. 15 Tho killing of tho engineer and the wounding wound-ing of four firemen on the British Steamer Penistone sent down by a German submarine in New England waters Sunday, was reported today by nino survivors of tho vessel who wero brought here by a tug. The tug picked pick-ed up two officers and seven men and other vessels landed 29 of the crew at Cape Cod points earlier in the day. The men wero not to discuss the attack on tho Penistone until they had been questioned by navy officials. |