[Sailor Steve]

May 18, 1917

Air War:
0720 French pilot René Montrion and Brig Conan, both flying Nieuports, share a victory over an Albatros fighter. Number 2 for Montrion.

1100 Australian RNAS ace Robert Little, in Sopwith Triplane N5493, shoots down a DFW. C.V for victory number 17.

1115 Bob Little scores his second kill of the day, shooting down an Albatros D.III for number 18.

1220 Italian pilot Luigi Olivari, in a SPAD VII, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 5.

2050 German ace Karl Allmenröder, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down BE.2e 7074 for victory number 15. Lts B. Strachan and A.G. MacKay are both killed.



North Atlantic Ocean, far west of Ireland:
Leo Hillebrand, commanding U-46, sinks two British freighters:
SS Llandrindod, 3,841 tons, bound from Port Natal for Glasgow with a load of Corn.
SS Penhale, 3,712 tons, en route from Jucaro via Halifax to Queenstown with a load of sugar; torpedoed.
Hillebrand's score is now 27 ships and 57,072 tons.

Cornwall:
British freighter SS Mary Baird, 1,830 tons, travelling in ballast from Rouen to Newport, Wales, hits a mine laid by Paul Hundius in UC-47, bringing his total to 43 ships and 45,827 tons.



Celtic Sea:
Hermann Glimpf, in UB-20, uses his deck gun on two British drifters off Bishop Rock:
Adventure, 50 tons.
Primrose, 62 tons.
Glimpf's score is now 7 vessels and 4,062 tons.



English Channel:
Three British ships are sunk by mines laid by Gustav Buch, in UC-36 off the Isle of Wight:
SS Camberwell, 4,078 tons, en route from Tees and London to Calcutta with a general cargo; off Dunnose head.
SS Elford, 1,739 tons, headed from Chatham to Cherbourg with a load of government supplies; off the Nab lightship.
His Majesty's Trawler Lucknow, 171 tons, on minesweeping duty off the Owers lightship.
Buch's score is now 19 vessels and 28,771 tons.

Werner Fürbringer, in UC-70, scuttles two vessels off Start Point:
British ketch C.E.C.G., 47 tons.
British coaster SS Dromore, 268 tons, travelling in ballast from Saint Malo to Swansea.
Fürbringer's score is now 79 ships and 62,604 tons.

Hugo Thielmann, in UC-71, scuttles Dutch motor vessel MV Annetta, 177 tons, heading from Yjmuiden to Le Havre with a general cargo, raising his score to 9 vessels and 9,443 tons.



Skagerrak:
Erich Haecker, in UC-79, takes Danish freighter SS Magnus, 1,297 tons, as a prize. It is later released by the Prize Court.



West of Gibraltar:
Heinrich Metzger, in U-47, scuttles American sailing vessel Frances M., 1,228 tons carrying a load of oil from New York to Oran. The first attempt to scuttle fails. While rigging charges for a second try part of the cargo explodes, killing one U-boat crew member. Metzger's score is now 10 ships and 18,506 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Hans Adalbert von der Lühe, in UC-20, sinks British freighter SS Millicent Knight, 3,563 tons, travelling from Cardiff to Port Said with a load of coal and government supplies. This is his first sinking.