[Sailor Steve]

December 22, 1916

Air War:
1030 English pilot William Hastings Farrow and Lt F.C. Brooks, in Armstrong-Whitworth FK.3 5528, shoot down a German two-seater for victory 1.



English Channel:
Wilhelm Kiel, commanding UC-18, sinks three Allied ships:
French schooner Amadée, 130 tons, bound from Binic for Cardiff; scuttled.
Danish freighter SS Dansborg, 2,242 tons, carrying a load of coal from Sunderland to Lisbon.
Danish freighter SS Hroptatyr, 1,300 tons, en route from Tyne to Oran with a load of coal.
Kiel's score is now 26 ships and 23,418 tons.

British freighter SS Araby, 3,303 tons, is wrecked at Boulogne and breaks in two.



North Sea:
Norwegian tug Smart, 27 tons, is towing barge Trancit XXIII, with a load of paper, from Bergen to Sævareid. Caught in a storm, Smart's engine breaks down and both vessels are forced ashore at Sandholmane.



Bay of Biscay:
Otto Wünsche, in U-70, attacks two ships off the north Spanish coast:
Italian freighter SS Avanti, either 1,673 or 1,723 tons, travelling from Villaricos to Tyne with a load of iron ore, sunk with all hands and listed as missing.
Norwegian freighter SS Thyra, 749 tons, carrying a load of coal from Cardiff to Oporto; captured. Thyra will be kept until December 29th, when an attempt is made to scuttle her. The ship survives, however, and is towed to port.
Wünsche now has 32 ships and 42,230 tons.



Canada:
Canadian schooner Sam Slick, 88 tons, en route from Parrsboro, Nova Scotia to Digby, NS, runs aground near Bay View, outside of Digby.