Shelley Dziedzic
Member
The Northern Echo for May 10th reports 2 incidents of sinkings by torpedoes:
"Another steamer was sunk on Saturday morning off the northeast coast by submarines. This was the Lancashire-Yorkshire Co. Steamer DON, registered at Goole. The crew is saved and landed in the Tyne, but 3 men were injured. The DON was about 5 miles off the Coquet on a voyage from Cromarty to Blyth and about 10 minutes to _? in the morning when a submarine fire a torpedo at her without giving warning. The torpedo missed the ship and the crew insisting the Capt. and 15 others at once lowered the boats and got away, succeeding in saving the greater part of their clothing. While they were in the boats, lying a short distance from the Don, the submarine discharged a second torpedo which struck the DON a violent blow, sending out a large quantity of splinters, which fell amongst the men in the boats, and injured 3. The second mate was cut on the hand and chest. The chief engineer about the head and one of the sailors about the legs. The ship went down in about 10 minutes and the men in the boats rowed away, and were picked up 4 hours later by the Dover steamer Elizabeth Maersk. They were subsequently transferred to the tug Great Emperor which brought them into the Tyne. On being landed at South Shields they were taken to the sailor's home and the injured men were attended to by Dr. Baker.
The owners of the liner Truro of the Wilson and Northeastern Shipping Co. Ltd. announced that they have been officially informed by the Admiralty that their vessel the Truro- a steel-? steamer with a net tonnage of 380 built in 1888 by the Caleda Shipbuilding Corp.of Dundee, had been sunk by the German submarine U39 off May Island and that all the members of the crew had been rescued by the Norwegian brigantine Tangen and had been landed at Rosyth. The Truro was nder the command of Capt. Rowgate and she was bund for Grimsby. She had no passengers aboard."
"Another steamer was sunk on Saturday morning off the northeast coast by submarines. This was the Lancashire-Yorkshire Co. Steamer DON, registered at Goole. The crew is saved and landed in the Tyne, but 3 men were injured. The DON was about 5 miles off the Coquet on a voyage from Cromarty to Blyth and about 10 minutes to _? in the morning when a submarine fire a torpedo at her without giving warning. The torpedo missed the ship and the crew insisting the Capt. and 15 others at once lowered the boats and got away, succeeding in saving the greater part of their clothing. While they were in the boats, lying a short distance from the Don, the submarine discharged a second torpedo which struck the DON a violent blow, sending out a large quantity of splinters, which fell amongst the men in the boats, and injured 3. The second mate was cut on the hand and chest. The chief engineer about the head and one of the sailors about the legs. The ship went down in about 10 minutes and the men in the boats rowed away, and were picked up 4 hours later by the Dover steamer Elizabeth Maersk. They were subsequently transferred to the tug Great Emperor which brought them into the Tyne. On being landed at South Shields they were taken to the sailor's home and the injured men were attended to by Dr. Baker.
The owners of the liner Truro of the Wilson and Northeastern Shipping Co. Ltd. announced that they have been officially informed by the Admiralty that their vessel the Truro- a steel-? steamer with a net tonnage of 380 built in 1888 by the Caleda Shipbuilding Corp.of Dundee, had been sunk by the German submarine U39 off May Island and that all the members of the crew had been rescued by the Norwegian brigantine Tangen and had been landed at Rosyth. The Truro was nder the command of Capt. Rowgate and she was bund for Grimsby. She had no passengers aboard."
