File No. 300.115C49/8
The Consul at Glasgow ( MoCunn) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 20, 1917, 5 p.m.]
Captain Borum with eight members of crew of City of Memphis arrived Glasgow, 20th. Captain reports City of Memphis was [Page 182] sunk 4 p.m., March 17, by German submarine 44 miles off Irish coast. No resistance offered; captain ordered to abandon ship immediately. Warned by two shots, across bow, four boats were launched with difficulty in rough sea taking off all crew. Ship was subsequently sunk by gunfire, no other steamers in sight. No assistance offered crew by submarine. Eighteen hours in open boat before rescue. Ship was bound from Cardiff to New York in ballast, total crew 58 including 30 Americans. Remainder crew reported landed Ireland. Names crew landed Glasgow: H. O. Bevill, N. P. Clausen, Charles Walker, David Jackson, Fred Prutting, S. Ludvigsen, Manuel Lopez, Manuel Barbrito; no casualties reported here, full affidavit taken, Embassy advised.