[Sailor Steve]

July 27, 1916

Air War:
French pilot Joseph de Bonnefoy, in an unnamed Nieuport, shoots down an "Avion" for victory number 2.

French pilot Jean Augustin Paul Joseph Loste, observer P. Barbou and gunner Louis Honore Martin, in a Caudron three-seat "Battle Plane", claim an "Avion" for victory number 1.

Italian pilot Ferruccio Ranza, flying a Nieuport 11, shoots down a Hansa-Brandenburg C.I for victory number 1.



North Sea:
Ernst Voigt, commanding UB-23, sinks Norwegian brig Agenda, 226 tons, bound from Fredrikshald for Hartlepool with a load of pit props. His score is now 13 ships and 3,232 tons.

German minesweeper M-12 is sunk by a mine.



German East Africa:
Monitor HMS Mersey continues the attack on Saadani Village with 6" and 4.7" guns.
0230 Mersey lowers a skiff to examine two dhows drifting by her anchorage.
0455 Mersey is underway for Saadani.
0700 Seaplane is aloft for spotting.
0730 Mersey opens fire on village.
0752 Mersey ceases fire.
0800 Seaplane reports being fired on by machine guns in village.
0815 Mersey resumes fire at 7500 yards.
0820 Mersey ceases fire. Seaplane lands.
1015 Mersey moves south.
1800 Mersey opens fire on village with after guns only.
1825 Mersey ceases fire.
2230 Mersey fires on village one last time for ten minutes, ceasing at 2240.

Meanwhile light cruiser HMS Talbot and armed whaler Thistle against Mkwaja Village.
0700 Talbot sights flag battleship HMS Vengeance.
0745 Talbot puts ashore a "small-arm party and marines".
0815 Talbot opens fire on a house near Mkwaja with her 6" guns.
0830 Talbot ceases fire.
1140 Severn takes on board one officer and eight natives from Dickson's Scouts.
1245 Severn weighs anchor and departs Pangani for Mkwaja.
1500 Small-arm party returns to Talbot.
1700 Burial party for dead native.
1745 Severn arrives and anchors off Mkwaja Village.
2240 "Observed flashes and reports of gun fire to southward."