October 24, 1915:
St. George's Channel, between the Irish Sea and the Celtic Sea:
British coaster SS Isabel Monks, 495 tons, bound from Garston to Waterford with a load of coal, and Norwegian freighter SS Ydun, 1,265 tons, carrying a cargo of timber from Parrsborough to Glasgow, collide of the Tuskar Rock, Ireland. Both ships are lost.
North Sea:
His Majesty's Drifter Charity, 102 tons, goes missing with all hands while en route from Yarmouth to Poole.
Baltic Sea:
Hans Walther, commanding U-17, captures Swedish freighter SS Rumina, 1,418 tons, bound from Hörnefors to London with a load of wood pulp, as a prize and orders her to Libau. On the way there the freighter hits a mine and sinks, taking six of her crew with her.
This is U-17's last sinking. She will serve the rest of the war as a training submarine. Hans Walther's next command will be U-52.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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