October 25, 1915:
English Channel
HMS Velox, 380 tons, is sunk by a mine laid by Herbert Pustkuchen in UC-5. Velox was the third experimental turbine-powered destroyer built for the Royal Navy and the first to see active service. Pustkuchen's score is now 13 ships and 16,319 tons.
North Sea:
Norwegian freighter SS Selma, 1,654 tons, bound from Middlsbrough to Nantes with a load of pig iron and steel plates, is sunk by a mine laid by Erwin Waßner and UC-3. Waßner's score is now 3 ships and 3,930 tons.
South Atlantic Ocean:
Norwegian barque SV Trafalgar, 1,501 tons, carrying a load of coal from Liverpool to South Georgia, catches fire and is abandoned off the coast of Salvador, Bahia, Brazil.
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