Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1918 — FRENCH MINESWEEPERS LOST [ARTICLE]

FRENCH MINESWEEPERS LOST

Boats Wrecked in Lake Superior „Qale —Flagship Saved. Sault Ste. Marie, Mich., Dec. 6.—The French government has been officially notified that the Ceriseles and Inkerman, two minesweepers built at .Fort William for the French navy, were lost in a I.ake Superior gale on the night of November 24. Their crews, consisting of 76 officers and men, all members of the French navy, are believed to have perished. A third mine sweeper, the Sebastopol, flagship of the little fleet, and commanded by Capt. M. Leclere of the French navy, arrived safely at a Canadian port.