May 26, 1916
North Sea:
British freighter SS El Argentino, 6,809 tons, travelling in ballast from Hull to London, hits a mine laid by Kurt Ramien in UC-1. Ramien's score is now 2 ships and 10,159 tons.
British freighter SS Denewood, 1,221 tons, bound from Tyne for London with a load of coal, hits a mine laid by Günther Kreysern in UC-3. This is Kreysern's first sinking.
Otto Ehrentraut, in UC-6, comes across Belgian tug Lauwersoog, towing Volharding, 1000 tons, a lighter converted to a barge, from Rotterdam to London. Ehrentraut stops the tug with machine gun fire. After he has scuttled the barge he lets the tug go. This is Ehrentraut's first sinking.
Durban, South Africa:
The crew of HMS Mersey begin dismantling equipment in preparation for towing back to Mafia Island.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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