Dyddiad: 20 Ebrill 1917

Trawsysgrif:

HOSPITAL SHIP TORPEDOED.
ANOTHER MINED: FIFTY-TWO LIFES LOST.

The Secretary of the Admiralty makes the I following announcement:—

The British hospital ship Gloucester Castle was torpedoed without warning in mid Channel during the night of March 30th. 31st.

All the wounded were successfully removed from the ship.

The Berlin official wireless of April 11th: proclaims the fact that she was torpedoed by a U boat, thus removing any possible doubt in the matter.

On April 10 the British hospital ship Salta struck a mine in the Channel during very bad weather and sank. There were no wounded on board, but it is regretted that the following casualties occurred:—

R.A.M.C. complement:—

Medical officers .......... 5
Nursing sieters .......... 9
R.A.M.C. personnel .... 38

all of whom are missing and presumed drowned.

The Gloucester Castle was one of the Union Castle Line. She was a vessel of 8,000 tons, and was built on the Clyde in 1911.

The Salta was a French ship of 7,284 tons and built in 1911.

Ffynhonnell:
'Hospital Ship Torpedoed.' Abergavenny Chronicle and Monmouthshire Advertiser. 20 Ebr. 1917. 6.