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Newspaper
New York Times
Location
New York, New York, United States of America
Date
Jun 05, 1918
Page
2
Twenty nine survivors landed at Atlantic City after the German submarine U 37 sank the steamship Carolina off Delaware capes. The boat retraced a perilous 44 hour drift across the Atlantic with women and children ferried to shore and crew commended for steadiness under fire and storm.
Notices from the New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company tracked 244 survivors on the schooner Eva B Douglass after the Carolina was sunk by a German submarine. Reports from Lewes, Atlantic City and Barnegat detailed lifeboat losses and search efforts as tugs prepared to tow the vessel to port.
Second Officer Trygve Whly recounts near missing sighting of a German submarine with 50 to 60 sailors aboard. He notes shots fired, close inspection, and the Carolina sinking after multiple gun attacks. Survivors faced a violent lifeboat voyage with 35 aboard and 16 lost, including a stewardess.
The Boston schooner Jacob M Haskell was sunk by a German submarine forty miles east of Barnegat New Jersey. Eleven crewmen spent nineteen hours in small boats before being rescued by the Grecian of the Merchants and Miners Line. Captain William H Davis and Mate George H Gilliatt related the incident, noting the submarine fired across the bow and then shelled the ship after ordering an evacuation. The crew received help at an Atlantic port and described the attack and rescue in cautious, restrained terms.
The German L-boat shelled and sank the Texel sixty miles from New York on a voyage from Porto Rico carrying sugar. Captain Lowry, formerly of the United States lines, commanded the Texel and survived with the crew reporting a bold defense led by Patrick Huston at the wheel. Crew members described two raiders and a seaplane visiting during the night, while censorship limited details. The Texel crew were sheltered in New York and later sent orders to Washington via the Shipping Board.
Navy summaries reveal Captains of the schooner Edna and Steamship Hattie Dunn were aboard the I-151 submarine for eight days as POWs. They reported the submarine signaling to a companion sub or shore station while off the coast.
The Savannah liner City of Columbus reported sunk by German submarines off the New Jersey coast but reached port safely. No submarines were seen. passengers and crew extinguished lights as a precaution while coastal patrols confirmed the danger zone after an IOS call from the steamer Carolina.
Special to The New York Times reports three loud gun reports off Cape May New Jersey at night and in the afternoon. An aviator aboard a submarine patrol base sighted small boats with women and children offshore but could not locate a submarine. Dirigibles flew over the mouth of Delaware Bay as lightships and ships near Five Fathom Bank reported cannon sounds with unclear attribution.
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