Office of the Historian

File No. 300.115G95/7

The Ambassador in Great Britain (Page) to the Secretary of State

[Telegram]
London, May 4, 1915.
[Received 7.10 p. m.]

2042. Your 1500, 3d. British Admiralty has charge of steamer Gulflight now at Scilly Islands, but are on the point of turning it over to the salvage company. Officers and crew are at Penzance. I am sending Lieutenant Towers and Naval Constructor McBride [Page 380] to Scilly to-day to make investigation and have instructed Consul at Plymouth to mail me depositions of ship’s officers and crew.

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