May 27, 1916
North Sea:
British freighter SS Lincairn, 3,638 tons, bound from Tyne for Gibraltar with a load of coal, runs on a mine laid by Alfred Nitzsche in UC-10. His score is now 15 ships and 29,036 tons.
UC-3 (Günther Kreysern) hits a mine off Zeebrugge. All 18 crew are lost.
Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea):
Russian minesweeper N-5, 509 tons, hits a mine and sinks in the Irbenskij Strait.
Mediterranean Sea:
Walter Forstmann, commanding U-39, sinks Italian freighter SS Mar Terso, 3,778 tons, carrying a load of coal from Newport to Savona; and British freighter SS Trunkby, 2,635 tons, heading from Newport to Cette, also with a cargo of coal. His score is now 66 ships and 151,005 tons.
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