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[Jimbuna]

17th June 1918

Western Front

Aeroplane raid on Kent; no damage.

Southern Front

Italians and French capture Razea Pizzo and heights south-east of Sasso (Asiago).

In Grappa region Allies gain ground.

Lower Piave (between S. Andrea and Fossalta) Italians repulse Austrian attempts to cross.

Political, etc.

Disturbances and partial strike in Vienna, etc., re: reduced bread ration.

Ship Losses:

Pronzitelny (Soviet Navy) The Bespokoynyy-class destroyer was scuttled at Novorossiysk.
SM U-64 (Kaiserliche Marine) The SM U-64 submarine was depth charged, shelled and sunk in the Mediterranean Sea (38°07′N 10°27′E) by HMS Lychnis ( Royal Navy) with the loss of 38 of her 43 crew.

A Bristol Fighter of No. 22 Squadron "banking". Taken from another machine, Serny aerodrome, 17 June 1918.

[Sailor Steve]

June 17, 1918


Air War:

0630 English RAF pilot Alec Reid, flying SE.5a D6859, shoots down a German teo-seater for victory number 2.

0740 English pilot Leslie Capel and ace observer Ernest Deighton, in Bristol F.2b C4604, shoot down a Pfalz D.III. Victory number 5 for Capel; number 13 for Deighton.

0755 Leslie Capel and Ernest Deighton shoot down a second Pfalz D.III. Number 6 for Capel; number 14 for Deighton.

0800 German pilot Max Hillmann, with Jasta 7, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 1.

0800 German pilot August Eigenbrodt, with Jasta 7, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 2.

0830 German pilot Franz Brandt, flying with Jasta 26, shoots down a SPAD XIII for victory number 5. MdL Luc Dol of Spa 162 is listed as Missing.

0830 German ace Hermann Göring, in Fokker D.VII 324/18, shoots down a SPAD VII for victory number 21. Adj Bernard Breton of Spa 93 is taken prisoner. He will escape in October, just too late to get back into combat.

0830 German ace Rudolf Klimke, with Jasta 27, shoots down a SPAD XIII for victory number 8. MdL Georges Franceschi of Spa 93 is taken prisoner. He will also escape in October, just before the end of the war.

0850 English RAF observer William Dyke, in DH.4 A7799 with 2ne Lt A. Pickin as pilot, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 3.

0915 Canadian RAF ace William Claxton, in SE.5a C8879, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 7.

0920 Canadian RAF pilot Roger Amedee Del'Haye, in Sopwith Dolphin C3792, shoots down a Fokker Dr.I for victory number 1.

0945 William Claxton scores his second kill of the day, shooting down a Pfalz D.III for number 8.

1015 German ace Johannes Werner, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Sopwith Dolphin for victory number 7.

1025 German pilot Alfred Rüdiger, with Jasta 59, shoots down DH.9 B9332 for victory number 1. 2nd Lt W.J.T. Atkins is taken prisoner; Sgt J.H. Read is wounded and taken prisoner.

1030 German pilot Fritz Kraft, with Jasta 59, ahoots down DH.9 D1694 for victory number 1.

1100 German pilot August Delling, with Jasta 34, shoots down an SE.5a D3955 for victory number 4. Lt J.S. Turnbull is killed.

1130 German pilot Emil Schäpe, flying with Jasta 33, destroys a French observation balloon for victory number 3. MdL MdL ?? Grisset, 39° Cie d’Aérostiers, parachutes safely.

1500 German ace Georg Meyer, with Jasta 37, destroys an observation balloon for victory number 6.

1630 German pilot Paul Achilles, with SeeFrontStaffel 2, shoots down DH.4 A7935 for victory number 1. Lts G.B. Coward and J.F. Reid are both taken prisoner.

Three French pilots with Spa 48 share a victory over a Halberstadt CL.II:
Edmond Caillaux, victory number 5.
René Montrion, victory number 11.
Jacques Roques, victory number 5.

Two French pilots with Spa 68 share a victory over an Albatros C.V:
Pierre Gaudermen, victory number 3.
Sgt Sinclaire (no first name given), victory number1.

German pilot Wilhelm Leusch, flying a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down a SPAD XIII for victory number 2. american 12-victory ace Frank Lehmann Baylies, with Spa 3, is killed.

German ace Ulrich Neckel, with Jasta 13, shoots down a SPAD XIII for victory number 14.

German pilot Rudolf Reinau, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 2.

French pilot Èmile Julien Mathurin Régnier, in a SPAD XIII, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 1.

German ace Josef Schwendemann, with Jasta 41, shoots down a SPAD XIII for victory number 6. This is possibly S/Lt André Guersant of Spa 162, listed as Missing.

German 27-victory ace Kurt Wüsthoff, in Fokker D.VII 2469/18 borrowed from Georg Hantelmann, is brought down by Sopwith Camels of 23 and 24 Squadrons. Critically wounded, he will spend the next two years in various hospitals before he can walk again. Released by the French in 1920 he will spend another two years in German hospitals before finding a job with an Austrian car maker. Wüsthoff will start flying again, and the suffer a major accident at an airshow to raise funds for a memorial to Max Immelmann on July 19, 1926. He will die five days after that.

[Jimbuna]

18th June 1918

Western Front

French repulse German attack on Reims front from Sillery (south of La Pompelle Fort) to Trigny (seven miles west of Reims).

Southern Front

Piave in flood.

Austrian attempts to cross between S. Andrea and Candelu repulsed; Italians recapture Capo Sile.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres

British air raid on Amman.

German troops land at Poti (Black Sea, 35 miles north of Batum).

Naval and Overseas Operations

Dutch Government sends a delegation to investigate cause of loss of "Koningen Regentes".

Germans in retreat reach Mujebu (80 miles north of Quilimane, Portuguese East Africa).

Russian battleship Svobodnaya Rossiia and 9 other ships are scuttled in Novorossiysk to prevent them from being handed over to the Germans under the terms of the Brest-Litovsk Treaty.


Political, etc.

Arrival of Prince Arthur of Connaught in Japan.

Publication of Secret Treaty between Bolsheviks and Germans re: Poland.

Publication of Agreement between Entente and Sweden.

Ship Losses:

No. 11 (Imperial Russian Navy) The torpedo boat was scuttled at Novorossiysk.
Dwinsk (United Kingdom) The ocean liner was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 400 nautical miles (740 km) north east of Bermuda by SM U-151 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of 22 lives. Survivors were rescued by USS Rondo, USS Siboney and USS Von Steuben (all United States Navy).
Fidonsi (Imperial Russian Navy) The Kerch-class destroyer was scuttled at Sevastopol.
Gromki (Imperial Russian Navy) The Gromki-class destroyer was scuttled at Sevastopol.
Kapitam-Leitenant Baranov (Imperial Russian Navy) The Leitnant Shestakov-class destroyer was scuttled at Sevastopol.
Kerch (Imperial Russian Navy) The Kerch-class destroyer was scuttled at Sevastopol.
Leitnant Shestakov (Imperial Russian Navy) The Leitnant Shestakov-class destroyer was scuttled at Sevastopol.
Norfolk Coast (United Kingdom) The coaster was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 23 nautical miles (43 km) south east of Flamborough Head, Yorkshire (53°40′N 0°28′E) by SM UB-30 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of eight crew.
Pronzitelny (Imperial Russian Navy) The Gromki-class destroyer was scuttled at Sevastopol.
Smyetlivi (Imperial Russian Navy) The Pruitki-class destroyer was scuttled at Sevastopol.
Stremitelni (Imperial Russian Navy) The Pruitki-class destroyer was scuttled at Sevastopol.
Svobodnaya Rossiya (Imperial Russian Navy) The Imperatritsa Mariya-class battleship was scuttled at Novorossiysk by Kerch ( Imperial Russian Navy).

[Sailor Steve]

June 18, 1918


Air War:

0450 Two RAF SE.5a pilots share a victory over a German two-seater:
Arthur Randall, Scotland, B7870, victory number 3.
Alec Reid, England, D6859, victory number 3.

0845 German ace Kurt Schönfelder, with Jasta 7, shoots down a Sopqith Camel for victory number 12.

0900 South African RAF pilot Malcolm Graham Stewart Burger, in Sopwith Camel B7171, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 1.

0915 German pilot Rudolf Heins, with Jasta 56, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 4. Heins is wounded in this fight, effectively ending his combat career.

0920 German pilot Max Mertens, in a Pfalz D.IIIa, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 2.

0930 English RAF pilot Eric Brooks, flying Sopwith Camel C8291, is credited with shooting down a Fokker Dr.I and an Albatros D.V for victories 2 and 3.

0930 German pilot Carl Degelow, with Jasta 40, shoots down SE.5a C3870 for victory number 5. Lt R.G. Pierce of 29 Sqdn lands safely on his own side.

1000 German pilot Willi Nebgen, with Jasta 7, shoots down a Sopwith Camel for victory number 1.

1020 German pilot Bernhard Lauscher, with Jasta 31, shoots down a Dorand AR.2 for his first and only aerial victory.

1040 Austalian RAF pilot Edgar McCloughry, in Sopwith Camel D1961, shoots down a Fokker Dr.I for victory number 3.

1045 German ace Karl Thom, flying with Jasta 21, shoots down a SPAD VII vor victory number 17. Sgt Mallet of Spa 100 is listed as Missing.

1100 German ace Robert von Greim, in a Fokker Dr.I, shots down an Armstrong-Whitworth FK.8 for victory number 15.

1105 German pilot Johann Pütz, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down SE.5a C1883 for victory number 5. 1st Lt John M. Grider is killed.

1135 German ace Georg von hantelmann, with Jasta 15, shoots down a SPAD XIII for victory number 5. MdL Pierre Rouxel of Spa 100 is listed as Missing.

1150 German ace Rudolf Berthold, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 35.

1155 German ace Oliver von Beaulieu-Marconnay, in a Pfalz D.III, shoots down an SE.5a for victory number 8.

1155 Rudolf Berthold scores his second kill of the day, shooting down another SE.5a vor number 36.

1450 German pilot Martin Dehmisch, in an Albatros D.Va, desroys a French observation balloon for victory number 2. Sgt-Maj Boom of the 56° Cie d’Aérostiers parachutes safely.

1810 English RAF pilot Sydney Carlin, in SE.5a C6459, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 2.

French ace Henri Hay de Slade, with Spa 86, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 10.

French pilot Antwone Laplasse, flying with Spa 75, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 3.

Martin Dehmisch scores his second victory of the day, destroying another French Balloon for number 3.

[Jimbuna]

19th June 1918

Eastern Front

Reported overthrow of Bolshevist Government in western Siberia.

Anti-Bolshevist Government set up at Nizhni-Udinsk (330 miles north-west of Lake Baikal).

Tomsk taken by Anti-Bolsheviks.

Southern Front

Allies regain initiative; furious fighting from Montello to sea; Austrian lines on Montello thrown back; On Asiago Plateau French capture Mts. Bertigo and Pennar; Italians capture Mt. Costalunga.

Naval and Overseas Operations

British squadron in north of Heligoland Bight attacked by German seaplanes. One German seaplane destroyed.

Aviation

Francesco Baracca, one of Italy’s top flying aces with 34 aerial victories, is killed in action near Mount Montello.


Political, etc.

M. Malinov becomes Foreign Minister.

Decision re: Finnish Monarchy postponed till 1920.

Report of British Sub-Committee of Re-construction Committee re: increase of home-grown food.

Swiss Government adopts project of subvention of port at Basle.

Ship Losses:

Non reported on this day.

[Sailor Steve]

June 19, 1918


Air War:

1455 Australian AFC pilot Elwyn King, flying Sopwith Camel D1895, destroys a German observation balloon for victory number 2.

1815 Italian 34-victory ace Francesco Baracca and rookie pilot Franco Osnago take of on a ground-strafing mission. After the two become separated Osnago flies back to their base to find that Baracca has not returned. Four days later, on June 23rd, Baracca's body is found still in the cockpit of his wrecked SPAD XIII. His pistol is in his hand, indicating that he may have taken his own life rather than burn to death in a flaming plane. As usual his death is surrounded by controversy. The obvious conclusion is that he was shot down by ground fire. Did he shoot himself rather than burn or be captured? Did he attempt to shoot it out with Austrian troops? There is also a report filed by Zgst Max Kauer and Ltn Arnold Barwig in Phönix C.I 121.17, saying they were attacked by a SPAD and shot it down. After the war Baracca's mother presented a copy of his personal insignia, a black prancing horse, to family friend Enzo Ferrari, who would start using on his cars in 1923.

1900 German pilot Max Mertens, in a Pfalz D.IIIa, destroys an observation balloon for victory number 3.

1930 Scottish RAF observer James Grant, in DH.4 A7821 with Lt J.T. Kirkland as pilot, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 3.

2000 English RAF observer William Dyke, in DH.4 A8010 with 2nd Lt A. Pickin as pilot, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 4.

2020 English RAF ace pilot John Gurdon and observer James Scaramanga, flying Bristol F.2b C989, are credited with two Fokker D.VIIs. Victories 13 and 14 for Gurdon; 3 and 4 for Scaramanga.

2025 German ace Josef Jacobs, in a Fokker Dr.I, shoots down an RE.8 for victory number 21.

Max Mertens is shot down and killed attacing a second Allied balloon.

[Jimbuna]

20th June 1918

Southern Front

Italian advance continued in Montello, Fagare and Zenson (Lower Piave) sectors.

Austrian line at Cortelazzo (mouth of Piave) broken.

Nervesa re-captured.

Naval and Overseas Operations

Appointment of General Northey as Governor and Commander-in-Chief of East African Protectorate and High Commissioner for Zanzibar Protectorate.

Political, etc.

Re-establishment of Civil Law Courts in occupied territory of Palestine.

Publication of Lord Grey's "League of Nations"; Report of Shipping Committee; Speech of Lord Curzon re: Ireland; Speech of Mr. Balfour re: peace; Reception of Sir M. De Bunsen's Mission by President of Chile.

Food riots in Vienna.

Refusal of passport to M. Troelstra (Dutch Socialist leader) to visit England.

Ship Losses:

SM UC-64 (Kaiserliche Marine) The Type UC II submarine struck a mine and sank in the Strait of Dover (50°58′N 1°23′W) with the loss of all 30 crew.

[Sailor Steve]

une 20, 1918


Air War:

Captain Fiorello LaGuarda leads eighteen USAAS cadets to become the first American flyers to enter service with the Italian Air Force. They join several Squadriglias conducting bombing operations against Austria-Hungary.

1715 Scottish RAF ace John Gilmour, flying Sopwith Camel D8118, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 29.

1835 Italian ace Antonio Reali, in a Nieuport 27, is credited with a "Scout" and an "Enemy Aircraft" for victories 6 and 7.

English 7-victory ace Captain William Reginald Guy Pearson, Lt William Smith Macfarlane and American RFC pilot Lt Vincent Flynn are all killed in a mid-air collision. Pearson and Macfarlane were in a two-seater practicing mock combat with Flynn in a single-seat scout. The two planes collide, killing Pearson and Flynn instantly. Macfarlane dies a few minutes later.

[Jimbuna]

21st June 1918

Southern Front

Italians enlarge bridgehead at Cavazuccherina (near mouth of Piave); Austrian attempts to regain initiative in Montello and Grappa regions checked; 12,000 prisoners to date.

Political, etc.

Captain A.M. Shchastnyi, commander of naval forces in the Baltic Sea and chief architect of the Ice March of the Baltic Fleet, is executed in Moscow, following a dispute with Trotsky.

Food crisis in Vienna eased.

Mr. Balfour censures Pacifists.

Lord Curzon announces abandonment of Home Rule and conscription in Ireland for the present.

Ship Losses:

Eglantine (Norway) The sailing vessel was sunk in the North Sea by SM U-86 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of eight of her crew.
Montebello (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 320 nautical miles (590 km) west of Ouessant, Finistère, France (47°05′N 12°45′W) by SM U-100 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of 41 crew.
USS Schurz (United States Navy) The Bussard-class cruiser was rammed and sunk in the Atlantic Ocean south west of the Cape Lookout Lightship ( United States Navy) by Florida ( United States) with the loss of a crew member.

[Sailor Steve]

June 21, 1918


Air War:

1445 German ace Kurt Schönfelder, flying with Jasta 7, shoots down Sopwith Camel B7227 for victory number 13. 2nd Lt R.G. Carr is taken prisoner. He will escape to his own side on July 1.

1630 German pilot Reinhold Maier, with Jasta 30, destroys a British observation balloon for victory number 1.

1815 German pilot Hans-Eberhardt Gandert, with Jasta 51, shooss down sopwith Camel B6326 for victory number 5. Lt W.K. Wilson is taken prisoner.

French pilot André Lévy, in a SPAD XIII, shoots down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 2.

[Jimbuna]

22nd June 1918

Western Front

Enemy attack on Bligny (Reims) repulsed.

Eastern Front

Appeal of General Horvath to Allies for help against German invasion.

Southern Front

Piave in flood; Austrian retreat across Piave begins.

Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres

Turkish attack at El Haza (northern Hejaz) repulsed.

Political, etc.

Turkish war aims published.

Ship Losses:

Avance (Sweden) The cargo ship was sunk in the North Sea off Flamborough Head, Yorkshire, United Kingdom (54°13′N 0°08′W) by SM UB-88 ( Kaiserliche Marine).[87] One crew member died.
USS Californian (United States Navy) The cargo ship struck a mine and sank in the Bay of Biscay. Her crew were rescued by USS Corsair ( United States Navy).
Camp Boulhant (France) The four-masted schooner was driven ashore and wrecked. Her crew survived.
Chilier (Belgium) The cargo ship was captured by, and sunk by gunfire from, U-151 ( Kaiserliche Marine) in the Atlantic Ocean off Newfoundland (39°30′N 53°40′W).
Metamorphosis (Greece) The schooner was scuttled in the Mediterranean Sea south of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy (37°14′N 16°17′W) by SM UC-52 ( Kaiserliche Marine).
Rana (Norway) The sailing vessel was sunk in the Skaggerak 25 nautical miles (46 km) south west by south of Ryvingen, Rogaland (57°12′N 6°36′E) by SM U-111 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
Rhea (United Kingdom) The cargo ship struck a mine laid by
UC 49 (Hans Kükenthal) and sank in the English Channel off Étaples, Pas-de-Calais. Her crew survived.

[Sailor Steve]

June 22, 1918


Air War:

2045 German ace Erich Löwenhardt, flying a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 28. Adj Bralat (or Vaillat - sources vary) and S/Lt Lemoine of Br 11 are listed as Missing.

German pilot Alfred Aursbach, with Jasta 67, destroys an observation balloon for victory number 2.

[Jimbuna]

23rd June 1918

Western Front

British line on Lys front advanced south-west of Meteren.

Southern Front

Austrians in disordered retreat from Montello to the sea; heavy losses.

End of Second Battle of the Piave.

Political, etc.

Resignation of von Seidler (Austrian Premier).

Anglo-American Union proposed by Lord Reading.

Ship Losses:

Augvald (Norway) The cargo ship was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean by SM U-151 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of three of her crew.
London (United Kingdom) The cargo ship was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 4 nautical miles (7.4 km) north east of Whitby, Yorkshire by SM UB-88 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
Mountain Laurel (Norway) The sailing vessel was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 25 nautical miles (46 km) north west of Rathlin Island, County Antrim, United Kingdom (55°38′N 6°38′W) by SM UB-73 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of eleven of her crew.

[Sailor Steve]

June 23, 1918


Air War:

0600 Four RAF SE.5a aces share a victory over a Pfalz D.III:
John Bateman, England, B8254, victory number 6.
Percy Clayson, England, C1114, victory number 24.
Duerson Knight, United States, C1894, victory number 8.
Harold Kullberg, United States, C1835, victory number 10.

0710 Two RAF Sopwith Camel pilots share a victory over an LVG two-seater:
Lt W.J. Armstrong D3398, nationality and victory number unknown.
John Kenneth Summers, England, D3338, victory number 1.

0730 English RAF ace pilot Leslie Capel and ace observer Ernest Deighton, in Bristol F.2b C4604, shoot down a Pfalz D.III. Victory number 7 for Capel; number 13 for Deighton. This was the last aerial victory for both men. Leslie Howard Tandy Capel disappears from the records until February 14, 1939 when he recieves his civilian pilot's license, then is not mentioned again anywhere. Ernests Arthur Deighton also drops from sight until being commissioned as Second Lieuteneant in 1942. He leaves the RAF again in 1945, and is not mentioned again until his death on December 5, 1957.

0845 German ace Arno Benzler, with Jasta 60, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 7.

0945 German ace Friedrich riedrichs, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 13.

0945 German ace Alois Heldmann, flying a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 7. This is possibly Sgt Albert Voisin of Spa 62, in SPAD VII 7231, listed as Missing.

0945 German pilot Friedrich Schumacher, in a Fokker D.VII, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 1.

1210 German ace Ernst Udet, in a Fokker D.VII, shoot down a Bréguet 14 for victory number 31. This is probably Lt Pierre Tournadre and Soldat Pic (no first name given) of Br 216, both killed.

1215 English RAF pilot Ivan Couper Sanderson, in Sopwith Camel B7153, shoots down a Pfalz D.III for victory number 1.

1830 German pilot August Delling, with Jasta 34, shoots down DH.9 A7742 for victory number 5. Lt C.W. Pecham of 57 Sqdn is taken prisoer; 2nd Lt A.J. Cobbin dies of his wounds.

2015 English RAF ace pilot Joh Gurdon and Scottish observer James McDonald, flying Bristol F.2b C989, are credited with two Fokker D.VIIs. Victories 15 and 16 for Gurdon; 4 and 5 for McDonald.

2015 Ernst Udet scores his second kill of the day, another Bréguet 14, for number 32.

Three Spa 163 pilots share a victory over a Halberstadt CL.II:
Thomas Cassady, United States, victory number 3.
Sgt Guillet (no first name given), France, victory number 2.
Sgt Lederlin (no first name given), France, victory number 2.

French pilot Jean Fraissinet, with Spa 57, shoots down a Halberstadt two-seater for victory number 5.

French ace Lucien Gasser, with Spa 87, shoots down a Fokker D.VII for victory number 8. This is possibly Uffz Ernst Bielefeld, who is killed. According to Jasta 60 records an unnamed pilot was killed while riding as a passenger in a Rumpler two-seater the next day. Since Bielefeld was the only Jasta memeber killed on either day, either listing could be correct.

German pilot Bernard Linke-Schluckbier, with Jasta 9, shoots down a SPAD for victory number 1.

[Jimbuna]

24th June 1918

Southern Front

Right bank of Piave cleared of Austrians; Italians attack Austrians north-west of M. Grappa without much success. Further 8,000 prisoners.

Aviation

The Royal Air Force employs its new 1,650-lb (748-kg) bomb in combat for the first time when a Handley Page O/400 of No. 216 Squadron drops one on Middelkerke, Belgium.

Political, etc.

Speeches of Mr. Lloyd George in House of Commons and of von Kuhlmann, on the situation.

Emperor Charles refuses resignation of von Seidler.

Appeal of Irish Recruiting Council: Irish overseas aghast at inaction in Ireland.

Ship Losses:

Caroline (Denmark) The three-masted schooner was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean north west of Ireland (56°39′N 10°01′W) by SM U-102 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
HMS D6 (Royal Navy) The D-class submarine was sunk in the Atlantic Ocean 12 nautical miles (22 km) north of Inishtrahull Island, County Donegal (55°37′N 7°15′W) by SM UB-73 ( Kaiserliche Marine) with the loss of 24 of her 26 crew. Both survivors were rescued by SM UB-73.
Maria (Greece) The sailing vessel was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea south of Syracuse, Sicily, Italy by SM UC-52 ( Kaiserliche Marine).
Saint Antoine (France) The schooner was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea 15 nautical miles (28 km) off Mahdia, Tunisia by SM UB-68 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived.
Sophia (Italy) The sailing vessel was sunk in the Mediterranean Sea south of Syracuse by SM UC-52 ( Kaiserliche Marine).