[Sailor Steve]

July 1, 1917

Faroe Bank:
Erich Sittenfeld, commanding U-45, uses his deck gun to sink British trawler Eclipse, 185 tons, 100 miles northwest of Birsay, in the Orkney Islands. His score is now 21 vessels and 31,559 tons.

Alfred von Glasenapp, in U-80, torpedoes British freighter SS Don Emilio, 3,651 tons, carrying a load of coal from Barry to Yukanski Harbor at Archangelsk. His score is now 12 ships and 35,460 tons.



Ireland:
Otto von Schrader, in UC-31, sinks Dutch freighter SS Amstelland, 5,404 tons. travelling from Buenos Aires to Belfast; off Galley Head, Ireland. His score is now 34 ships and 35,471 tons.



English Channel:
Karsten von Heydebreck, in UC-63, scuttles three British fishing smacks near the Owers Rocks:
Advance, 44 tons.
Gleam, 54 tons.
Radiance, 57 tons.
Von Heydebreck's score is now 20 vessels and 5,378 tons.



North Sea:
Richard Hartmann, in U-49, torpedoes Norwegian freighter SS Stalheim, 1,4569 tons, bound frm Gothenburg for Hull with a load of timber; between Norway and the Shetlands. The damaged ship manages to make safe harbor.

Martin Schelle, in UC-33, scuttles British schooner Ariel, 108 tons, en route from Leith to Lerwick with a load of oil and coal; off Rattray Head, Scotland. His score is now 28 vessels and 11,941 tons.



Bay of Biscay:
Walter Roehr, in U-84, torpedoes two ships west of Les Sables d'Olonne:
Spanish freighter SS Bachi, 2,184 tons, travelling from Newport, Wales to Bilbao; sunk.
British passenger liner SS Demerara, 11,484 tons, carrying a general cargo from Liverpool to Buenos Aires; damaged, beached on the Ile de Ré, refloated.
Rohr's tally is now 20 ships and 56,889 tons.



Tyrrhennian Sea:
Otto Schultze, in U-63, scuttles French schooner Marie, en route from Carloforted to Port Saint Louis du Rhône with a load of ore. His score is now 43 vessels and 109,944 tons.



Max Valentiner, in U-38, sinks two Italian sailing vessels between Sardinia and Sicily:
Corrado, 120 tons.
Volto Santo G, 225 tons.
Valentiner's score is now 132 vessels and 189,848 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Karl Neumann, in UC-67, sinks two vessels between Sardinia and Tunis:
Italian sailing vessel Angela Madre, 80 tons.
Greek freighter SS Miltiades Embiricos, 3,448 tons, carrying a general cargo from New York to Piraeus.
Neumann's score is now 31 ships and 47,917 tons.