April 23, 1916
Air War:
0945 German Ace Max Immelmann, in a Fokker E.IV, shoots down Vickers FB.5 5079 for victory number 14. 2nd Lts William Charles Mortimer-Phelan and William Archibald Scott-Brown both taken POW.
1130 German pilot Max von Mulzer, in a Fokker E.III, shoots down FE.2b 5210 for victory number 2. Lt W.E. Collison is taken POW, AM2 Geoffrey F. Atwell KIA.
(Immelmann and von Mulzer were operating together and were both involved in shooting down both British planes. The above is how they divided the credit.)
Celtic Sea:
Raimund Weisbach, Commanding U-19, sinks British freighters SS Parisiana, 4,763 tons, bound from London to Newport News with a load of manure; and Ribston, 3,048 tons, carrying a load of coal from Cardiff to an unnamed destination. His score is now 5 ships and 17,440 tons.
British schooner SV Peter James, 90 tons, departs Newport, Wales for Waterford, Ireland, and is not heard from again.
North Sea:
His Majesty's Trawler Lena Melling, 274 tons, hits a mine laid by Georg Haag in UC-7, bringing his score to 21 ships and 30,102 tons.
Iyo-nada Sea:
Japanese freighter Kagawa Maru, 613 tons, carrying a general cargo from Uwajima to Osaka, is wrecked on the west coast of Shikoku.
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