May 18:
Celtic Sea, just west of Cornwall: Bernd Wegener, commanding U-27, sinks SS Drumcree, 4052 tons, travelling in ballast from Barry to Port Arthur. His score is now 4 ships and 16,112 tons.
As the monitors' convoy proceeds slowly to the coast of British Somaliland, Captain Fullerton once again sends Kendal Castle ahead to a an area of Italian Somaliland called Cloch, to find a safe refuge where the tugs can recoal on the fly.
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