[Sailor Steve]

May 5:

Atlantic Ocean: Walther Schwieger in U-20 sinks the 132-ton sailing vessel Earl of Lathom, bound from Connah's Quay to Limerick. This gives hims a total of 6 ships and 20,646 tons.



North Sea: Johannes Spieß, in U-9, stops and sinks the trawler Straton, 198 tons. His score is now 9 ships and 1,754 tons.

Walter Forstmann in U-39 sinks the fishing vessel Sceptre, 166 tons. He now has 7 ships and 2,175 tons.



Suez Canal: As the monitors' convoy proceeds southward, the tug Sarah Joliffe is fired upon by Turkish troops. Her armoured deckhouse prevents any harm.



German East Africa: HMS Laconia moves from Niororo to Mafia Island. At 1330 hours Short Folder No. 119, flown by Lt. Watkins, departs on a flight to reconoiter SMS Königsberg.Though Watkins stays at what should be a safe distance, a lucky hit by an anti-arcraft gun destroys the Short's rudder.
1615 HMS Chatham recalls her libertymen ashor.
1619 Lt. Cull takes No. 122 aloft to look for the missing plane.
1630 A motorboat is sent to search.
1640 HMS Chatham weighs anchor and proceeds at 19 knots to help search for the missing plane.
Unknown time: Apparently Short 122 suffers some kind of failure, because 119 is left as a wreck and 122 is towed home.
1736 Lookouts aboard Chatham spot the missing plane.
1818 HMS Fly picks up both pilots and takes No. 122 in tow.
1945 HMS Laconia is informed of the position of the wrecked seaplane.
2020 The motorboat returns.



Saudi Arabia: As von Mücke's party passes the top of the mountains, he notes that the promised stream is not deep enough for bathing. "In fact, the water in the tiny rivulet that we saw did move, but any one of us could easily have stopped its flow for some time, by stepping into it with both feet."