May 26:
Air War: The first French strategic bombing raid is carried out by 18 Voisin III aircraft, led Major Louis de Goÿs de Mézeyrac, against Ludwigshafen. De Goÿs himself is the squadron's only loss when he suffers an engine failure and is captured.
North Sea: Leo Hillebrand, commanding U-16, sinks the Swedish barque M. Roosval, 309 tons, bound from Oskarshamn to Sunderland with a cargo of boards. Later he torpedoes the Danish freighter Betty, 2,109 tons, carrying a load of coal from Blyth to Copenhagen.
Celtic Sea: U-16's former commander, Claus Hansen, now in U-41, sinks British freighter SS Morwenna, travelling in ballast from Cardiff to Sydney, Nova Scotia. Hansen's score is now 11 ships and 10,599 tons.
Italian Somaliland: Since the previous day an unexpected current has carried the monitors' convoy 25 mile out to sea. At noon Kendal Castle signals Trent that HMS Severn has developed a list. One of Severn's officers goes aboard to investigate, and finds two feet of water in the mess deck. Apparently some rivets have worked loose on the port side, allowing water in. Sailors are sent from Trent in relays to bail water out of Severn. This operation goes on all day and throughout that night.
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