April 27, 1916
Air War:
French pilot Pierre Dufaur de Gavardie, flying a Nieuport 12 with a "Soldat Carré" as gunner, shoots down an LVG two-seater for victory number 2 (number 1 for Carré).
Celtic Sea:
Erich Sittenfeld starts his career in U-45 with the sinking of British freighter SS Industry, 4,044 tons, travelling in ballast from Barry to Newport News.
North Sea:
German trawler Prangenhof, 215 tons, is stranded off Ostend.
German minelaying submarine UC-5 runs aground on Shipwash Shoal. The submarine is scuttled but the charges fail to explode and boat and crew are captured. Oberleutnant Ulrich Mohrbutter remains a prisoner for the rest of the war, his final score being 8 ships sunk for 10,272 tons. Post-war he will become a movie producer, his most famous being the 1941 U-Boote Westwärts.
Mediterranean Sea:
British sloop HMS Nasturtium, 1,250 tons, and old Duncan-class battleship HMS Russell, 14,000 tons, both hit mines laid just off Malta by Gustav Seiß in U-73, bringing his score to 4 ships and 20,656 tons.
Black Sea:
Turkish freighter Uskudar is sunk by gunfire. No other detail seem to be available.
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