April 18, 1916
Celtic Sea:
Ernst Wilhelms, commanding U-69, stops and sinks British sailing ship SV Ravenhill, 1,826 tons, bound from Port Natal to Falmouth with a load of maize. His score is now 7 ships and 17,034 tons.
United States:
American schooner SV Caroline Gray, 277 tons, carrying a load of coal from Norfolk, Virginia to Cienfuegos, Cuba, is abandoned 128 miles south of Frying Pan Shoals, South Carolina.
Caribbean Sea:
Canadian schooner SV Nellie Louise, travelling from Barbados to St. John's, Newfoundland with a load of molasses, is wrecked off Barbados.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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