August 29:
"As things stand at present I understand I am not going out to the Dardanelles. I must say I am awfully disappointed, as I was always rather keen to go out there, but I may possibly have a better job. For all I know it may be to rejoin Babington.
Went out to Furnes yesterday afternoon to collect more of my gear. While out there, a German machine came over and dropped six bombs on us. One went right into our tent and three fell within forty yards of me. No one was hit. We all ran like stags."
-Harold Rosher, letter to his father, August 29, 1915
North Sea: SS Sir William Stephenson, 1,540 tons, bound from Tyne to London with a general cargo, becomes the latests victim of the minefield laid by UC-6. Matthias von Schmettow's score is now 5 ships and 3,107 tons.
Adriatic Sea: Georg von Trapp, commanding Austrian U-5, takes Greek freighter SS Cefalonia, 1,034 tons, as a prize off Durrazzo (Durrės), Albania. The ship was heading from Saloniki to San Giovanni de Medua with a load of grain. Von Trapp's score is now 3 ships and 13,665 tons.
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Never do anything you can't take back.
Rocky Russo
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