[Sailor Steve]

May 11, 1917

Air War:
An a patro lasting from 0600 to 0810, two RFC SE.5s team up to shoot down an Albatros D.III:
Cecil Lewis, England, A4853, victory number 4.
Gerald Maxwell, Scotland, A8902, victory number 3.

0935 German pilot Fritz Krebs, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Sopwith Pup A7308 for victory number 2. Lt H.C. Duxbury is killed.

1015 Australian RFC pilot Alfred Seymour Shepperd, in Nieuport 23 A6787, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1030 German ace Heinrich Gontermann, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 21.

1040 English RFC pilot Charles Chapman, in Nieuport 17 B1517, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 4.

1040 English RFC pilot Walter Bertram Wood, flying Nieuport 23 A6721, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1125 Three French Nieuport pilots share a victory over a German two-seater:
Alfred Auger, number 5
Joseph de Sevin, number 3.
Paul Yvan Robert Waddington, number 1.

1200 English RNAS ace Edmund Pierce, in Sowith Pup 9928, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 6.

1225 German pilot Otto Maashoff, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a BE.2 for victory number 2.

1330 German pilot Otto Rosenfeld, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down an FE.2b for victory number 1.

1400 English RFC pilot William Edwin Jenkins, flying Nieuport 17 B1566, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1430 French ace Albert Deullin, in a SPAD VII, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 15.

1430 German ace Adolf von Tutschek, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Sopwith Pup N6162 for victory number 7. Sub-Lt Hubert Stanford Broad is severely wounded in the mouth but manages to crash on his own side of the lines.

1605 RFC ace team of Australian pilot Fred Holliday and English observer Anthony wall, in Bristol F.2b A7108, are credited with two Albatross D.IIIs, numbers 10 and 11 for both.

1710 German ace Lothar von Richthofen, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Bristol F.2b A7111 for victory number 23. 2nd Lts William Otto Brash Winkler and Ernest Stanley Moore are both taken prisoner.

1840 Six RFC Pups attack a German two-seater, and all are awarded the shared kill:
Maurice Scott, India, A6165, number 4.
William Strugnell, England, A6168, number 5.
Oliver Sutton, England, A6183, number 2.
Lt M.B. Cole, Lt E.J.Y. Grevelink, Maj C.E. Sutcliffe all unknown.,

1850 French pilot René Fonck, in a SPAD VII, shoots down a Rumpler two-seater for victory number 4,

1905 Scottish RFC ace William Kennedy-Cochran-Patrick, in Sopwith Pup A6183, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 9. German 15-victory ace Edmund Nathanael is killed.

1940 English ace William Strugnell, in Sopwith Pup A6183, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 6. This is Strugnell's last victory, though he will survive the war. In 1919 he will become a permanent member of the Royal Air Force, serving until his retirement in 1959. He will live until 1977.

1940 Australian RNAS pilot Richard Minifie, in Sopwith Triplane N5446, shares a victory over an Albatros D.III with Sub-Lt O.B. Ellis in N5488. Number 3 for Minfie, unknown for Ellis.

1950 Australian RNAS pilot George Simpson, flying Sopwith Triplane N5460, is credited with two Albatros D.IIIs for victories number 4 and 5.

2045 German pilot Kurt Küppers, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down Nieuport 17 N3189 for victory number 2. 2nd Lt O.J. Gagnier is injured in a forced landing on his own side of the lines.

Austrian pilot Ernst Heinz and Galician observer Alexander Tahy, in Hansa-Brandenburg C.I 27.77, shoot down a Nieuport. Victory number 2 for Tahy, unsure for Heinz.



Ireland:
Richard Hartmann, commanding U-49, sinks British freighter SS Barrister, 3,679 tons, bound from Pernambuco for Liverpool with a general cargo plus sugar and maize. His score is now 27 ships and 61,545 tons.

Alfred von Glasenapp, in U-80, sinks two ships:
Russian brigantine Anna Alwina, 364 tons, sailing from Pensacola to Liverpool; scuttled.
British freighter SS Calchas, 6,748 tons, en route from New York to Liverpool with a load of munitions plus general cargo.
Von Glasenapp's score is now 11 ships and 31,598 tons.



English Channel:
Claus Lafrenz, in UB-18, sinks British freighter SS Tarpeia, 538 tons, carrying stores from Alderney to Tréport. His score is now 45 ships and 48,521 tons.



North Sea:
His Majesty's Trawler Bracklyn, 303 tons, hits a mine laid of Yarmouth by Walter Warzecha in UC-1. This is Warzecha's first sinking.



Barents Sea:
Erich Sittenfeld, in U-45, uses his deck gun to sink Russian freighter SS Hermaes, 3,579 tons. headed from Newport, Wales to Archangelsk with a load of coal. The lifeboats are not recovered, and the entire crew of 34 are lost. Sittenfeld's score is now 19 ships and 31,237 tons.



Balearic Sea:
Johannes Klasing, in U-34, sinks two ships off Cape Tortosa, Spain:
Greek freighter SS Lefkosia, 1,087 tons, carrying a load of sulphuric acid from Valencia to Saint Louis, France; scuttled.
French troopship Medjerda, 1,918 tons, en route from Oran to Port Vendres with passengers and general cargo.
Klasing's score is now 16 ships and 15,210 tons.



Tyrhennian Sea:
Ernst von Voigt, in UC-35, scuttles a small Italian fishing fleet and a British sailing vessel off the east coast of Sardinia:
Limassol, 100 tons.
Luisa Madre, 87 tons.
Maddalena Madre, 87 tons.
Rosalia Madre, 95 tons.
San Antonio, 40 tons.
Von Voigt's score is now 17 vessels and 34,811 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Heinrich Metzger, in U-47, torpedoes British freighter SS Hindoo, 4,915 tons, travelling from Karachi to Hull with a general cargo. The damaged ship is beached and later refloated.