April 19, 1916
Britain:
British freighter SS Avon, 2,199 tons, bound from Liverpool to Alexandria with a general cargo, collides with another ship and sinks off New Brighton, at the mouth of the Mersey River.
North Sea:
British Trawler Hawk, 181 tons, on a fishing trip out of Hull for Iceland, collides with Brazilian freighter SS Corcovado and sinks five miles northeast of the Spurn light vessel.
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