11th April 1915
Western Front
Germans repulsed at Les Eparges.
Severe fighting near Albert.
Eastern Front
Germans bombard Osovyets.
Russians capture Wysocko Nizhne, near the Uzsok Pass.
Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres
Turks attack British at Kurna (Mesopotamia) and Ahwaz (Persian Gulf).
Naval and Overseas Operations
Harrison liner "
Wayfarer" torpedoed. Wayfarer sailed from Avonmouth on 10 April 1915 carrying 200 soldiers of the Warwickshire Yeomanry, their mounts and equipment. After the attack by
U 32 (Edgar von Spiegel von und zu Peckelsheim) in which five horses were also killed the ship was taken in tow by Framfield (2510/94) and towed to Queenstown for temporary repairs arriving there on 13 April. Permanent repairs were carried out at Liverpool between 19 May and 16 July.
French steamer
Frederic Franck was attacked by
U 24 (Rudolf Schneider) enroute from La Pallice - London was damaged about about 25 miles S of Start Point - did not sink after scuttling attempt.
"Kronprinz Wilhelm" arrives at Newport News.
The German submarine UB-15 is commissioned.
English Channel
Sarnia, Admiralty armed boarding steamer, 1,498/1910, hired 14/11/14, 2-12pdr, Cdr H Muir RNR. At 0700 Brixham smack Addax reported seeing a U-boat chasing a steamer half an hour earlier, at 0730 Sarnia sighted the French SS Frederic Franck 3½m off with crew in boats and
U.24 (Rudolf Schneider) alongside. Sarnia approached, the U-boat submerged, and Sarnia circled the steamer firing at the periscope. Around 0820 a first torpedo was evaded, then a second. Having called for destroyer help, she continued circling, firing at and attempting to ram the periscope until 1020 when the U-boat made off; the French steamer was only damaged
Political, etc.
Count Bernstorff publishes the German Note to U.S.A.
German reprisals announced re: British treatment of captured submarine crews: 39 British officer prisoners under arrest.
Bulgaria agrees to mixed Serbian and Bulgarian commission on frontier incidents in Macedonia.