August 30:
Air activity over France:
Baltic Sea: Near the Straight of Hari Kurk, Egewold von Berckheim, in
U-26, sinks the Russian freighter SS
Zemlya. This is von Bercheim's last sinking, and his final score is 5 ships and 15,075 tons.
U-26 was not heard from again. Nothing was left but speculation for 99 years, until the wreck of
U-26 was discovered in May 2014.
http://badewanne.fi/a-hundred-year-o...as-been-found/
German East Africa: At 1248 HMS
Severn sends a landing party to Simaya Island, looking for signs of German activity. The island is deserted.