[Sailor Steve]

December 25, 1916

Air War:
German pilot Otto Brauneck, flying an Albatros C.III with an Oberleutnant Geissler as observer, claims an "Enemy Aircraft", but it is unconfirmed.



English Channel:
Ralph Wenninger, commanding UC-17, stops and scuttles French schooner Courlis, 181 tons, bound from Lisbon for Palmol with a load of salt and wine. Wenninger's score is now 34 ships and 14,419 tons.



Gulf of Bothnia:
German freighter SS Cremon, 1,074 tons, travelling from Söderhamn to Germany, runs aground at Lövgrund, Sweden.



Bay of Biscay:
Alfred Saalwächter, in U-46, sinks French schooner Marie Pierre, 166 tons, carrying a load of pit props from Bayonne to Swansea. The crew are transferred to captured trawler Goulfar and Marie Pierre is set afire off the north Spanish coast. Saalwächter's score is now 7 ships and 12,551 tons.



Pacific Ocean:
British freighter SS Maitai, 3,393 tons, en route from San Francisco to Wellington, is wrecked at Raratonga.



Canada:
Canadian schooner Palmette, 98 tons, travelling from Clarks Harbour, Nova Scotia to Gloucester, Massachusetts, runs aground at Clarks Harbour.



United States:
American schooner Daniel McLoud, 253 tons, carrying a load of coal from New York to Boothbay, Maine, runs aground at the north end of Nantucket, Massachussetts.

American schooner Ravola, 123 tons, travelling from New York to Annapolis, Maryland with a load of coal, runs aground at the south end of Nantucket.



Caribbean Sea:
Russian schooner Hiram, 288 tons, travelling from Demarara, British Guiana to Liverpool, runs aground at Nevis.



Cape Verde Islands:
Danish barque Atlanta, 1,101 tons, travelling from Aalborg, Denmark to Santos, Brazil with a load of 1,450 tons of cement, runs aground at Boa Vista Island.