[Sailor Steve]

August 9, 1916

Air War:
0630 English pilot John Andrews, flying DH.2 5925, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 2.

0730 Irish RFC pilot Sidney Cowan, in DH.2 5998, shoots down a two-seater for victory number 5.

0815 English pilot Henry Evans, in DH.2 7878, also brings down a two-seater for win number 5.

1215 English pilot Noel Webb and observer C.S. Workman, in FE.2b 4839, force an Albatros two-seater to land. Victory number 2 for Webb, unknown for Workman.

Austrian pilot Ludwig Hautzmayer, in Fokker E.III 03.42, shoots down a Caudron for kill number 3.

French pilot Paul Tarascon, in a Nieuport scout, shoots down an Aviatik two-seater for victory number 3.



Firth of Clyde, Scotland:
Norwegian freighter SS Hjortness, 3,154 tons, carrying a load of corn from Buenos Aires to Scandinavia, is wrecked off the port of Ardrossan.



English Channel:
Otto Steinbrinck, commanding UB-18, stops and scuttles French freighter SS Henri Elisa, 822 tons. His score is now 59 ships and 41,293 tons.



North Sea:
Hans Valentiner, in UB-37, sinks Danish freighter SS Danevang, 1,247 tons, bound from Karlsberg for Hull with a load of sawn timber. His score is now 23 ships and 13,400 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Cäsar Bauer, in UB-46, sinks Greek sailing ship Basileios, 488 tons, returning from Egypt to the Adriatic. His score is now 7 ships and 10,968 tons.



Gulf of Lyon:
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, in U-35, sinks three more Allied ships:
1000 Spanish freighter SS Ganekogorta Mendi, 3,061, carrying a load of coal from Newcastle to Savona.
1600 Italian freighter SS Sebastiano, 3,995 tons, from New York to Genoa with a load of flour.
1700 British freighter SS Antiope, 2,973 tons, travelling in ballast from Marseille to Rosario.
Von Arnauld's score is now 75 ships and 167,652 tons.



Italy:
British submarine HMS B-10 is caught in an Austro-Hungarian air raid on the Naval Arsenal at Venice. The burnt-out hulk is later sold for scrap.



Ionian Sea:
Gustav Sieß, in U-73, stops and scuttles Italian schooner Lorenzo Donato, 140 tons. He now has 8 ships and 22,995 tons.