October 21, 1915:
North Sea:
British freighter SS Monitoria, 1,904 tons, bound from Humber to London with a load of coal, hits a mine laid by UC-6 under Matthias von Schmettow. His score is now 13 ships and 11,438 tons.
Norwegian barque SV Cissie, 1,848 tons, en route from Hull to Port Arthur, Texas, is lost after a collision with SS Northwestern Miller, 13 miles southeast of the Nab lightvessel. Seven of her crew are lost.
UC-9, under Paul Schürmann, is destroyed by one of her own mines while laying a field off Long Sand, in the Thames Estuary. All 14 crew were lost. The Chief Engineer's body washed ahore on November 12.
(October 20 is also given by some sources)
White Sea:
British freighter SS Antibes, 2,549 tons, heading from Barry to Arkhangelsk, is sunk by a mine laid by SMS Meteor on the night of June 7-8.
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