[Sailor Steve]

April 22, 1916

0530 Australian RNAS Roderic Stanley Dallas, flying Nieuport 11 3987, shoots down a two seater for victory number 1.



Celtic Sea:
Raimund Weisbach, commanding U-19, sinks Italian freighter SS Jozsef Agost Foherzeg, 2,680 tons. bound from Barry for Livorno with a load of coal. He then captures British freighter SS Ross, 2,666 tons, carrying a load of ore from Sevilla to Glasgow, and after the crew has abandoned ship sinks her with a torpedo. Weisbach's score is now 3 ships and 9,629 tons.

Hans Nieland, in U-67, stops French freighter SS Chanaral, travelling from Mejillones to Falmouth with 4,000 tons of nitrates, orders the crew to abandon ship, collects the ship's papers and sinks her with a torpedo. Nieland then gives the crew directions Scilly Isles where they land safely the next day.



North Sea:
Paul Hundius, in UB-16, torpedoes British freighter SS Tregantle, 3,091 tons, carrying a load of wheat from Galveston to Hull. His score is now 2 ships and 6,069 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Italian freighter SS Nilo, 2,768 tons, en route from Naples to Tripoli with a general cargo, is wrecked as she approaches Tripoli.



East China Sea:
Chinese passenger/cargo ship SS Hsin-Yu, 1,629 tons, carrying soldiers from an unspecified port to Foo Chow (modern Fuzhou), collides in a fog with Chinese cruiser Hai Yung off Chusan Island (modern Zhoushan), with the loss of over 1,000 lives. Only 30 survive the accident.