[Sailor Steve]

April 30, 1916

Air War:

Idflieg bi-monthly report on German fighters at the Front:
Fokker:
E.I - 22
E.II - 13
E.III - 110
E.IV - 28

Pfalz:
E.I - 27
E.II - 20
E.III - 4
E.IV - 5

1045 Irish RFC pilot David Tidmarsh, flying DH.2 5965, claims a Fokker E.III for victory number 2. German pilot Otto Schmedes is killed in the crash. The official German report says that the eindecker's flying wires were severed by machine gun bullets, but Tidmarsh reports that he never got closer than 500 yards and never fired a shot.

1415 French pilot Noel de Rochefort, in Nieuport 11 916, claims an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 2.

German pilot Ernst von Althaus, in a Fokker E.III, shoots down a Farman two-seater for victory number 5. There is some confusion in the report, and this action may have taken place on May 1.

French pilot Albert Deullin, in a Nieuport 10, brings down an eindecker for kill number 4. Rittmeister Erich Graf von Holk is killed. Witnessing the fight from a distance is a former observer and friend of von Holck's now turned two-seater pilot, Manfred von Richtofen.

French pilot Georges Charles Marie François Flachaire, flying a Nieuport 11, shoots down an unidentified two-seater for victory number 1.

German pilot Friedrich Mallinckrodt, in a Fokker E.III, claims a French aircraft, but it is unconfirmed.



Celtic Sea:
Walther Schwieger, in U-20, torpedoes Spanish freighter SS Bakio, 1,906 tons, carrying a load of iron ore from Sagunto, on the Mediterranean coast of Spain, to Newport, Wales. Schwieger's score is now 26 ships and 113,238 tons. Bakio is posted as missing until the end of the war.



North Sea:
Victor Dieckmann, commanding UB-27, uses his deck gun to sink Norwegian coaster SS Mod, 664 tons, bound from Göteborg for Blyth with a load of mine props. His score is now 3 ships and 1,449 tons.



Bay of Biscay:
Erich Sittenfeld, in U-45, sinks Spanish freighter SS Vinifreda, 1,441 tons, en route from Valencia to Liverpool with an unspecified cargo. Sittenfeld now has 2 ships and 5,485 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
1030 Otto Hersing, in U-21, sinks British freighter SS City of Lucknow, 3,669 tons, travelling from Alexandria to Liverpool with a load of onions. The crew are all rescued by HMS Rifleman at 1500 hours.



Canada:
Norwegian freighter SS Cissy, 1,943 tons, travelling from Le Havre to Louisbourg, Nova Scotia, runs aground at Saint Esprit, Cape Breton Island.