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Show SUBMARINE IKS AMERICAN STEAMER OIL TANKER ATTACKED OFF SCILLY ISLANDS AND SENT TO THE BOTTOM. Of the Crew of Sixty-three, All Are Saved Except Three, the Captain Cap-tain Dying of Heart Failure as Result of the Shock. London. The American oil tank steamship Gulflight was torpedoed off Bishop's lighthouse, Scilly islands, at noon on Saturday by a German submarine. sub-marine. The vessel was badly damaged dam-aged and the crew was landed at Scilly by a patrol boat. Of the crew of thirty-six thirty-three were saved. Two jumped overboard and were drowned, and the captain later died of heart failure as a result of the shock. The vessel was picked up by steam drifters, which towed It Into Crow sound, where it was beached. The Gulflight was laden with naphtha naph-tha from Port Arthur to Rouen. The French steamer Europe also was torpedoed by a submarine and sunk off the Scilly Islands. The uub-niarlne uub-niarlne ordered the crew to taV to the boats, and then fired several shells Into the ship. The steamer did not sink from the effects of these, so the submarine launched a torpedo, j which sent her to the bottom. The ! crew of the Europe was picked up by a fishing smack and landed in Corn-I Corn-I wall. England. The Europe was bound I from Barry to St. Lazalre with coal, j The British steamer Fulgent was : sunk off Skelllng rocks, southwest of : County Kerry, Ireland, In the dark Sundy morning, also by a German submarine. |