Survivors Recount Sinking of Carolina by U-37 in Storm
Nineteen survivors reached Lewes Delaware after the submarined steamship Carolina was sunk by the German U-37. They describe a night of a fierce thunderstorm, lifeboat rescues, one girl saved, and sixteen missing. A German crewman is detained for investigation. The ship was signalled to abandon ship within 20 minutes and later shelled as lifeboats departed.
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Lewes
Del
Carolina
Delaware Capes
Cape Henlopen
New York
Wincarnis Promises New Health and Vitality
Advertisement touts Wincarnis as a fourfold tonic that builds blood nerves and vitality for the weak anemic and run down. It promises immediate blood revitalization and invites readers to mail in a coupon with 10 cents for a trial bottle.
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Wincarnis
Edward Lassere, Inc
U.S
West 23d Street
New York
TO THE MERCHANT MARINE By Harold Hornsten
Poem memorializing U S S Meade sailors who perished at sea. It contrasts absent homecoming rituals with their sacrifice and describes their ordeal in a leaky, drifting boat and the grim treatment by German forces. The poet lauds the heroes and notes their ship and absent wreaths.
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Hans
Survivor Rescue after Atlantic Boat Disaster
In daylight 19 survivors remained from a motor launch after a storm. A lone girl, Elena Donato Virola of Porto Rico, clung to two drowned men and was rescued as the launch drifted until a British vessel picked up the craft on Monday afternoon. The two dead men's identities were not known.
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Atlantic
Elena Donato Virola
Porto Rico
U boat raids sink several ships off the New Jersey coast
A string of ships were sunk or damaged by U boat action Sunday and Monday along the Mid Atlantic coast. Vessels named include the 8000 ton passenger steamer on the New York to Porto Rico line, the 3210 ton Texel, the 1800 ton Winnecome, the 5372 ton Herbert L Pratt, and others sailing from Norfolk to Portland and New York to Charleston. Captain details and ownerships are listed for several vessels.
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U. S
Carolina
New York
Porto Rico
Sandy Hook
Edward R. Baird
Maryland
TEXEL
W. Ruijs & Zonen
Rotterdam
Jersey
Winnecome
Norfolk
Providence
American Transatlantic Company
Cape May
Herbert L. Pratt
Mexico
Cape Henlopen
Jacob M. Haskell
Edward H. Cole
Portland
H. C. Newcombe
Somerville
Crowell & Thurlow
Boston
Barnegat
Hattie Dunn
Charleston
S. C
Charles Holbrook
Tenants Harbor
Dunn, Eliot & Co
Thomaston
Winter Quarter
Samuel W. Hathaway
Isabel B. Wiley
Bath
Edna
Philadelphia
Santiago de Cuba
Hauppauge
Navy mine recovered off Delaware Capes after Pratt sinking
A navy minesweeper off the Delaware Capes recovered a mine today in the same area where the tank steamer Herbert L Pratt was sunk yesterday according to a report to the Navy Department from the Fourth Naval District.
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Washington
Navy
Delaware Capes
Navy Department
Fourth Naval District
Herbert L. Pratt
British destroyer sunk in collision
A British destroyer was sunk in a collision on Friday. The admiralty statement reports no casualties.
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London
Admiralty
Raiders Sinking U S Ships Off Coast
Survivors recount two submarines at work in American waters the U 37 and U 151 with stores for three months. Reports estimate crews and armament vary with claims of four or three heavy guns and crews around 76 men.
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Edward Baird
Atlantic
HAL
Navy Department
Navy
City of Columbus Sinks, Survivors Arrive at Atlantic Port
The City of Columbus steel steamer, sank after German raider attacks, reached an Atlantic port with 52 aboard. The Grecian of Merchants & Miners line followed, carrying about 20 passengers and the rescued crew from the sunken Jacob M. Haskell. The harbor scene showed mixed relief and military concern.
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Atlantic
City of Columbus
Savannah
Merchants & Miners
Jacob M. Haskell
Patrol Boat Steams In Safe After U-Boat Fears
Reports say the patrol boat arrived under its own steam amid a tense harbor scene. Spectators checked for injuries while the captain later announced no U-boat contact was found, easing maritime fears.
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Underwood & Underwood
America
Boston Post
Seaman Harold Hornsten
U. S. S. Meade
Ee Hotel Imperial Broadway
Thirty Second St. N
New York City
Stack
Columbus
Vors
York State
Wm.elliott
New England
Pine Grove
Cary
Iennery
Campbell’s
Crisco
John Alden
Wiscomb
Jeginter Co
United States
Union St. Serer,cim St
Canal St. "Gren
The
Ginter Co
C. B.brown Co., Inc
Summer St
Tremont St
Washington St
Bromfield St
Tremont
Washington Fem Spect
NEV
Carmote
Carpenter-Morton
Carpenter-Morton Co
Sudbury Street
Mass
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