History - Tampa Sunk

Tampa Sunk; 118 Lives Lost U-Boat Blamed

American Patrol Boat Is Sent To Bottom In Bristol Channel
 

The New York Tribune
New York, New York
Friday, October 4, 1918
This article taken from pages 1-2.
This gives the roster of the Tampa.


WASHINGTON, Oct. 3, -- Loss of naval patrol boat Tampa, formerly the Coast Guard cutter Miami, with all on-board — 118 men — was announced to--day by the Navy Department.

The vessel was sunk on the night of September 26 in the Bristol Channel, off the coast of England, and Vice Admiral Sims’s report indicated that she was torpedoed while escorting a convoy.

Through the sinking of the Tampa the Navy suffered the greatest single blow of the war. Ten officers and 102 enlisted men, most of them taken over from the Coast Guard service when the Tampa was sent to the war zone, many months ago, were aboard, and, in addition, it was reported that one British army officer and five civilian employees were on the vessel.
Search For Survivors
Other vessels of the convoy, which, it appears, the Tampa had steamed ahead of, made a thorough search in the vicinity after they felt the shock of the explosion, but they failed to find a single survivor. Two bodies in naval uniform were picked up, but they had not been identified up to the time Admiral Sims’s latest dispatches were filed.

Captain Charles Satterlee, formerly of the Coast Guard service, was the commander of the Tampa. His name and those of six other officers and ninety-nine men have been cabled to the Navy Department by Admiral Sims, as included among those missing. It was assumed that the names of the other men would be sent as soon as they could be definitely ascertained.

The list from Admiral Sims was as follows:

Officers:
Captains Charles Satterlee, Gales Ferry, Conn.; A.H. Scally, Savannah, Ga.
First Lieutenant (Engineers) J. S. Carr, Jamaica Plain, Mass.
First Lieutenants J. ? McGourty, New London, Conn.; R. A. Bothwell, 161 Wycoff Street, Brooklyn; J. M. Earp, 2422 Druid Hill Avenue, Baltimore; James A. Frost jr., 1726 East Third Street, Brooklyn.

Enlisted men — A. L. Larsen, Norway; Joseph Cygan, New Bedford, Mass.; C. E. Galvin, Tampa, Fla.; F. J. Taylor, Cambridge, Mass.; W. Sumner, Tampa, Fla.; L. F. Vaughn, Tampa, Fla.; J. D. Nix, Estelle, S.C.; J.R. Wiley, Dorchester, Mass.; J. F. Healey, 482 Lenox Road, Brooklyn; W. B. Clements, Boston; B. Daniels, S. Baltimore; H. R. Johaneson, Sweden; W. R. Boseman, Tampa, Fla.; and Gerassemas Mehalatos, Greece.

Edward Kelly, Maxwell, Neb.; A. Poulson, Denmark; C. M. Lawrence, 69 Washington Place, New York; A. J. Deasy, 478 Seventh Street, Brooklyn; H. Hansen, Sweden; A. L. Saldarini, Union Hill, N.J.; Norman Walpole, Weehawken, N.J.; G. H. Griffiths, Mineola, N.Y.; E. C. Bell, Dover, Fla.; F. H. Quigley, Wallingford, Conn.; J.C. Kosinski, Baltimore.

T. Harris, 2042 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn; John F. Miller, 1635 Atfield Avenue, Brooklyn; A. K. Bevins, Davenport, Fla.; F. C. Garrett, Weatchie, Wash.; B. E. Nelson, Elroy, Wis.; F. W. Wyman, Marlboro, Mass.; H. Holstein, Philadelphia; E. F. Shanahan, 641 Montgomery Street, Jersey City; John Bouzekis, Philadelphia; L. R. Bozeman, Tampa, Fla.; R. W. Burns, Brockton, Mass.

J. Bush, Sault Ste Marie, Mich.; A. R. Campbell, 101 Clinton Avenue, Brooklyn; R. E. Cordova, Cuba; F. W. Creamer, 344 Logan Street, Brooklyn; G. J. Doyle, 7220 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn; J. M. Fleury, 15 Alson Street, Jamaica; Harold Haughland, Norway; S. W. Layman, Rineyville, Ky.; Joseph Lieb, 59 Veret Street, Brooklyn; F. G. Poppell, Quayr, Fla.; W. H. Reynolds, Sanderson, Fla.

J. M. Richards, Dorchester, Mass.; Michael Sarkin, South Framingham, Mass.; Paul S. Schwegler, Washington D.C.; H. B. Sumner, Tampa, Fla.; L.A. Thomas, Charleston, S.C.; F.L. Wilkes, Nantucket, Mass.; R. L. Agee, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; A. L. Bevins, Davenport, Fla.; and W. F. Deering, East Boston, Mass.

O. G. Harrison, Jamaica, Long Island; W. P. Hastings, Philadelphia; Angus N. MacLean, Sneads, Fla.; Frederick Mansfield, Tampa, Fla.; F. R. Scott, Muskegon, Mich.; J. E. Talley, Oakhurst, Fla.; J. M. Vallon, 334 West Forty-Second Street, New York; W. J. Williams, Muskegon, Mich.; H. B. Irish, Bucklahn, Conn.; J. Britton, Charleston, S.C.; Charles Dechritt, address unknown; C. M. Faust, Chicago.

W. L. Felton, Key West, Fla.; C. I. Johnson, Ragan, Neb.; J. J. Adams, Key West, Fla.; W. Weech, Key West, Florida; M. J. Hutton, Washington; Perry Roberts, Key West, Fla.; C. E. Greenwald, Albany; J. C. Wilkie, Charleston, S.C.; H. A. Carmuchel, Tampa, Fla.; W. R. Connell, Tampa, Fla.; A. C. Emerson, Tampa, Fla.; H. L. Evans, Key West, Fla.; Peter Foneca, East Boston, Mass.

W. Holland, Tampa, Fla.; Eugene Johnson, Key West, Fla.; B. H. Lane, Lakeland, Fla.; E. D. Legree, Tampa, Fla.; Percy Mansfield, Tampa, Fla.; W. J. Nobles, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Robert Norwood, San Antonia, Tex.; C. W. Parkin, Grtystone, R. I.; R. G. Robertson, Birmingham, Ala.; Jimmie Ross, Tampa, Fla.; I. A. Thompson, 329 East Fifty-eighth Street, New York; C. H. Thompson, Key West, Fla.; P. O. Webb, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Harold Myers, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Carl L. Dalton, Gastonia, N.C.

The latest muster roll at Coast Guard Headquarters here shows the following as having been attached to the Tampa when the roll was made out, in August, although none of these names appear in the dispatches giving a list of the missing: Boatswain W. Hickey, Gunner J. G. Darnou, Carpenter C. Klingelhoefer, Acting Machinist W. Knudson, Coxswains E. T. Green and E. E. Riles, Acting Water Tender F. Rieger, Seamen S. S. Cook, N. W. Finch, A. A. Soder, S. C. Wright, and A. A. Turin, Fireman P. Johnson.

Records at the Coast Guard headquarters show that the first eight men still were attached to the Tampa at last reports. Coxswain Green went to a hospital July 8 for treatment. Seaman Soler was transferred to a naval dispensary for treatment August 19. Fireman Johnson, the records show, reenlisted, September 21. Seaman Wright and Turin were held for duty at Base 9 of Coast Guard July 14.