Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1917-02-16 | Page 6 | Largest Freighter Sunk

5 LARGEST FREIGHTfcK SUNK. White Star Steamer Afric Victim of Submarine Warfare. London. The biggest freighter in the world, the White Star, steamer Afric, of 1,990 tons, fell victim on .February 13 to unrestritced U-boat warfare. Seventeen of the crew are missing. She is the biggest prize exacted ex-acted by the German submarine since the decree went into effect Her loss brings the total number of ships known to have been destroyed in thirteen days up to ninety-one, with an aggregate tonnage of 200,433. The biggest vessel sent to the bottom bot-tom prior to the Afric's destruction was the British steamer California, of 8,662 tons.