[Sailor Steve]

May 23, 1917

Air War:
1000 St. Vincent (West Indies)-born RNAS pilot Charles Hugh Beresford Jenner-Parson and English RNAS pilot Reginald Soar, both flying Sopwith Triplanes, share a victory over a German two-seater. Victory number 1 for Jenner-Parson, number 3 for Soar.

1045 English RFC pilot Hugh White and observer Thomas Lewis, in FE.2d A6412, shoot down an Albatros D.III. Victory number 2 for both.

1325 Irish RFC observer Giles Blennerhasset, in FE.2b 7003 with 2nd Lt D. Marshall as pilot, shoots down two Albatros D.IIIs for victories number 7 and 8. These are Blennerhasset's last victories. On July 19 he will be transferred to Home Defense, where he will undergo pilot training. Once qulified as a pilot he will serve in four different Home Defense Squadrons. After the war Blennerhassett will serve with the RAF until 1922. Giles Blennerhassett will die on December 4, 1978.

1340 Canadian RNAS pilot James Alpheus Glen, in Sopwith Pup N6183, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1345 Canadian RNAS ace Lloyd Breadner, in Sopwith Pup N6197, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 7.

1345 Cnnadian RNAS ace Joseph Fall, Flying Sopwith Pup, N6205, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 8.

1425 German ace Werner Voss, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down FE.2b A5502 for victory number 29. 2nd Lt Wilfred Ferguson MacDonald and Lt Frank Charles Shackell are both killed.

1510 English RFC aces pilot Frederick Thayre and observer Francis Cubbon, in FE.2d A6430, shoot down an Albatros D.III. Victory number 13 for Thayre and 14 for Cubbon.

1515 Frederick Thayre and Francis Cubbon score a second kill, another Albatros D.III. Number 14 for Thayre, 15 for Cubbon.

1545 Two RNAS aces in Sopwith Pups share a victory over an Albatros D.III:
Charles Booker, England, N5482, number 10.
Robert Little, Australia, N5493, number 19.

1555-1810 English RFC pilot Cecil Lewis, flying SE.5 A4853, shoots down an Albatros two-seater for victory number 5.

1615 German ace Max von Müller, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down FE.2d A6468 for victory number 11. Lt Richard Allan Pendarves Johns is wounded and taken prisover. Sgt Bernard Aldred is wounded, and dies later.

1615 German ace Karl Schäfer, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down FE.2d A6467 for victory number 28. Lt R.G. Masson and 2nd Lt F.W. Evans are both killed.

1800 English RFC pilot Louis Fleeming Jenkin, in Nieuport 17 B1554, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1800 Australian RNAS ace George Simpson, in Sopwith Triplane N5460, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 6.

1815 English RFC pilot Cyril Crowe, flying SE.5 A8902, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 5.

1845 Karl Schäfer makes his second kill of the day, shooting down Sopwith Pup A665 for number 29 overall.

1900 English RFC pilot Edric Broadberry, in SE.5 A8903, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 3.

1900 English RFC pilot Arthur Percival Foley Rhys Davids, in SE.5 A4868, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

1900 Scottish RFC pilot Phillip Prothero, in SE.5 A8909, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 3.

1915 English RFC pilot Augustus Henry Orlebar, flying SPAD VII A6663, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 1.

2115 German pilot Hans Hintsch, in Albatros D.III 2016/16, shoots down Sopwith Triplane N5481 for victory number 3. Sub-Lt H.A. Pailthorpe is killed.

Italian pilot Falvio Baracchini, in a Nieuport 11, shoost down an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 2.

German ace Heinrich Bongartz, in an Albatros D.III, destroys a French observation balloon for victory number 8.

German pilot Dieter Collin, in an Albatros D.III, shoots down a Nieuport for victory number 3.



Faroe Islands:
Martin Schelle, Commanding UC-33, stops and scuttles 5 Danish and 2 British fishing vessels:
Danish smack Beinir, 73 tons.
Danish ketch Britannia, 69 tons.
Danish smack Else, 78 tons.
Danish smack Margrethe, 104 tons.
Danish smack Streymoy, 81 tons.
British trawler Olearia, 209 tons.
British trawler Sisapon, 211 tons.
Schelle's score is now 16 vessels and 8,159 tons.



North of Scotland:
Rudolf Schneider, in U-87, attacks two Dutch freighters on their way from Rufisque to Rotterdam with loads of groundnuts:
SS Elve, 962 tons, torpedoed and sunk.
SS Bernisse, 951 tons, torpedoed but did not sink; towed to port.
Schneider's score is now 27 ships and 90,146 tons.



Scotland:
Franz Grünert, in U-30, scuttles Danish schooner Freden, 166 tons, carrying a load of salt from Setubal to Thorshavn; off the Butt of Lewis, the northernmost point of the Hebrides. His score is now 17 ships and 22,113 tons.



English Channel:
Werner Fürbringer, in UC-70, sinks Spanish freighter Begona Nº 3, 2,699 tons, en route from Almeria to Barrow with a load of iron ore. His score is now 80 ships and 65,303 tons.



North Sea:
Walther Schwieger, in U-88, sinks Norwegian freighter SS Hector, 1,146 tons, travelling from Ålesund to Hull with a load of salt herring. His score is now 38 ships and 146,976 tons.

Günther Krause, in UB-41, sinks Norwegian freighter SS Monarch, 1,318 tons, carrying a load of pitch from Tees to Saint Nazaire; just off Seaham. His score is now 3 ships and 4,741 tons.

His Majesty's Trawler Tettenhall, 227 tons, hits a mine laid off Lowestoft by Ulrich Pilzecker in UC-14. His total is now 3 vessels and 761 tons.

Norwegian freighter SS Gran, 1,153 tons, travelling in ballast from Rouen to Tyne, hits a mine laid off Ryhope, Sunderland, by Gustav Deuerlich in UC-40. His score is now 6 ships and 5,147 tons.

Ernst Müller-Schwartz, in UC-64, scuttles Dutch sailing vessel Alberdina, 100 tons, en route from Saintt Valéry to Rotterdam with a load of stones and plaster; off the Maas lightship. His score is now 2 vessels and 214 tons.



Bay of Biscay:
Reinhold Saltzwedel, in UC-21, sinks two ships near the mouth of the Loire:
American schooner Harwood Palmer, 2,885 tons, travelling from Boston to Saint Nazaire with a load of steel bars; deck gun.
British freighter SS Lesto, 1,940 tons, underway from Bilbao to Garston with a load of iron ore.
Saltzwedel's score is now 73 ships and 106,799 tons.



Tyrhennian Sea:
Ernst von Voigt, in UC-35, scuttles Greek sailing vessel Pipitsa, 224 tons, east of Corsica, bringing his total to 19 ships and 37,956 tons.



Strait of Sicily:
Hermann von Fischel, in U-65, sinks two vessels off Cape Bon, Tunisia:
British freighter SS England, 3,798 tons, en route from Cardiff and Bizerta to Malta with a load of coal.
Italian sailboat Maria Febronia Antonia, 55 tons.
Fischel's score is now 22 ships and 51,503 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Karl Neumann, in UC-67, sinks British freighter SS Elmmoor, 3,744 tons, carrying a load of wheat from Karachi to Livorno; southeast of Siracusa. His score is now 27 ships and 35,631 tons.