[Sailor Steve]

January 5, 1917

Air War:
1100 German pilot Walter Göttsch, flying an Albatros D.II, shoots down BE.2e 7190 for victory number 3.

1440 German pilot Alfred Mohr, in an Albatros D.II, shoots down a Caudron two-seater for victory number 4.

1620 German pilot Friedrich Manschott, in an Albatros D.II, shoots down a Voisin two-seater for victory number 2.

German pilot Otto Brauneck, in an Albatros C.III with an Oblt Geissler as observer, shoots down two observation balloons for victories number 3 and 4.

Polish-born German pilot Hans-Georg von der Marwitz, flying for Schusta 10 in an unidentified two-seater with an nunnamed observer, shoots down a Farman two-seater for victory number 1.



Celtic Sea:
Hans Adam, commanding U-82, sinks Danish freighter SS Ebro, 1,028 tons, bound from Tyne for Livorno with a load of coal and coke, southwest of Ushant. His score is now 9 ships and 14,395 tons.



English Channel:
Claus Lafrenz, in UB-18, sinks Danish freighter SS Danevirke, 1,433 tons, carrying a load of coal from Newcastle to Gibraltar. His score is now 28 ships and 28,152 tons.

Paul Günther, in UB-37, sinks Norwegian freighter SS Asta, 573 tons, travelling in ballast from Rouen to Barry. His score is now 14 ships and 7,980 tons.



Denmark:
Swedish barquentine Gunilla, 233 tons, carrying a load of coal from Tyne to Christiania, runs aground near Klitmøller.



Bay of Biscay:
Heinrich Küstner, in UB-39, sinks two Allied ships:
British freighter SS Allie, 1,127 tons, en route from Swansea to Bordeaux with a load of copper sulphate.
Norwegian freighter SS Markland, 1,627 tons, carrying a load of pit props from Bayonne to Barry.
Küstner's score is now 40 ships and 38,624 tons.



Alboran Sea:
Otto Launsburg, in UC-37, has moved from the Gulf of Cadiz through the Strait of Gibraltar into the Mediterranean. Off the Cabo de Gata he stops and scuttles Italian freighter SS Combermere, 1,718 tons, travelling from Genoa to Pensacola. His score is now 11 ships and 21,423 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, in U-35, is back in operation again, sinking two Allied ships southeast of Malta:
1615 British freighter SS Lesbian, 2,555 tons, carrying a general cargo from Calicut to London and Tees.
1915 Italian sailing vessel Salvatore Padre, 200 tons.
Von Arnauld's score is now 135 ships and 266,618 tons.



Zanzibar:
Fleet Messenger Trent reports offloading of equipment from HMS Severn is made difficult by swells entering the bay, causing the two ships to bump together. The wooden fenders protecting them are broken loose and swept away.



United States:
Canadian great lakes ship SS Case, 2,278 tons, is making the passage from Lake Huron to Lake Erie when she springs a leak in a storm. The ship is beached at Grosse Ile and abandoned. The ship burns, but the cargo is salvaged.



Atlantic Ocean:
Norwegian barque Fredriksten,1,293 tons, departs Savannah, Georgia, USA with 2,000 tons of oilcakes for Svendbord, Norway, and is not heard from again.

British freighter SS Martazan, 3,477 tons, en route from Sierra Leone for Liverpool, is sunk in a collision with Italian freighter SS Monte Bianco, off the Cape Verde Islands.