March 11, 1916:
Celtic Sea:
Dutch freighter SS Zaandijk, 4,189 tons, bound from Philadelphia to Rotterdam with a general cargo, is damaged by a mine laid by Alfred Nitzsche in UC-10. Zaandijk will be repaired and returned to service.
Atlantic Ocean:
British freighter SS Horatio, 3,212 tons, catches fire and sinks in Leith Harbour, South Georgia Island, roughly nine hundred miles east of Port Stanley, Falkland Islands.
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