[Sailor Steve]

May 22, 1917

North Atlantic Ocean, west of Ireland:
Leo Hillebrand, commanding U-46, sinks Japanese freighter Tansan Maru, 2,443 tons, bound from Boston for Manchester with a General Cargo; 80 miles west of Annagh Head. His score is now 29 ships and 60,887 tons.



Firth of Clyde, western Scotland:
His Majesty's Trawler Merse, 296 tons, while escorting battleship HMS Ramillies from Dalmuir to Liverpool, hits a mine laid by Otto Steinbrinck in U-65, off the Isle of Bute. The trawler sinks with all 17 hands, and Steinbrinck's score is now 174 vessels and 162,677 tons.



North Sea:
Günther Krause, in UB-41, sinks British freighter SS Lanthorn, 2,299 tons, travelling in ballast from London to Tyne; off Whitby. His score is now 2 ships and 3,243 tons.



Bay of Biscay:
Reinhold Saltzwedel, in UC-21, scuttles French fishing boat Jeune Albert, 25 tons; off Belle Ile. His score is now 71 vessels and 101,974 tons.

Norwegian freighter SS Nann Smith, 2,093 tons, carrying a load of iron ore from Bilbao to Newport, Wales, hits a mine laid by Erwin Waßner in UC-69 between Belle Ile and Ile de Groix. His score is now 55 vessels and 76,063 tons.



Atlantic Ocean, west of Tangier:
Heinrich Metzger, in U-47, scuttles Brazilian freighter SS Lapa, 1,366 tons, en route from Santos to Marseilles with a load of coffee. His score is now 11 ships and 19,842 tons.