[Sailor Steve]

June 10, 1917

Air War:
Slovakia-born Austro-Hungarian pilot Jozef Kiss, flying Hansa-Brandenburg D.I 28.37, shoots down an Italian Nieuport for victory number 4.



North Atlantic Ocean very far west of Brittany:
Karl Meusel, commanding U-155, sinks Canadian freighter SS Scottish Hero, 2,205 tons, bound from Sydney, Nova Scotia for Le Havre with a load of steel products; 440 miles west-southwest of Fastnet Rock. His score is now 2 ships and 3,874 tons.



Far west of Ireland:
Waldemar Bender, in U-43, sinks British freighter SS Haulwen, 4,032 tons, en route from Montreal to Manchester with a load of wheat; 250 miles west of Fastnet. His score is now 4 ships and 6,350 tons.

Thorwald von Bothmer, in U-66, sinks British freighter SS Bay State, 6,583 tons, hauling a general cargo from Boston to Liverpool. His score is now 21 ships and 61,480 tons.



Ireland:
British freighter SS Keeper, 572 tons, carrying a load of grain form Belfast to Limerick, goes missing with all twelve hands. Fate unknown.



North of Scotland:
Victor Dieckmann, in U-61, sinks two ships northwest of North Roma Island:
Russian freighter SS Betty, 2,683 tons, underway from Cardiff to Murmansk with a load of coal.
British freighter SS Ribera, 3,511 tons, travelling from Penarth to the White Sea with a load of coal.
Dieckmann's score is now 27 ships and 49,502 tons.



Celtic Sea, far south of Ireland:
Otto Wünsche, in U-70, sinks British freighter SS Galicia, 1,400 tons, underway from Malaga to London with a general cargo; 140 miles south-southwest of Fastnet. His score is now 70 ships and 160,311 tons.



English Channel:
Hans Howaldt, in UB-40, scuttles two French fishing boats between Cap Barfleur and Le Havre:
Henri Jeanne, 9 tons.
Madeleine, 7 tons.
Howaldt's score is now 29 vessels and 42,053 tons.



North Sea:
Karlgeorg Schuster, in U-60, sinks British freighter SS Clan Alpine, 3,587 tons, bound from Tyne to the White Sea with an unspecified cargo; 40 miles northeast of Muckle Flugga, the far northern tip of the Shetland Islands. His score is now 16 ships and 50,604 tons.

British freighter SS Dulwich, 1,460 tons carying a load of coal from Seaham to London, hits a mine laid off the Shipwash lightship by Ernst Steindorff in UB-12.
French naval trawler Jupiter I, 253 tons, hits a mine laid by UB-12 off Calais.
Steindorff's score is now 7 ships and 5,400 tons.



Barents Sea:
Georg Schmidt, in U-28, sinks two British freighters far northwest of Cape Teriberski:
SS Marie Elsie, 2,615 tons, en route from Penarth to Archangelsk with a load of oil.
SS Perla, 5,355 tons, headed from Genoa for Archangelsk with a load of coal and motor cars.
Schmidt's score is now 11 ships and 15,983 tons.



Bay of Biscay:
Kurt Ramien, in UC-48, sinks Norwegian freighter SS Solhaug, 1,217 tons, travelling in ballast from Bayonne to Lisbon, off Cape Peñas, on the northern coast of Spain. His score is now 33 ships and 53,468 tons.



Portugal:
Kurt Albrecht, in UC-53, sinks Portuguese schooner Santa Maria, heading from Oporto to Portuguese Guinea with a load of coal; off the Berlingues Islands. His score is now 8 vessels and 9,747 tons.
Albrecht also attacks Portuguese schooner Ligeiro, 285 tons, off Vianna, but the damaged shep reaches port safely.



West of Gibraltar:
Walter Forstmann, in U-39, sinks American tanker SS Petrolite, 3,710 tons, travelling in Ballast from Genoa to the United States. His score is now 158 ships and 332,438 tons. Petrolite had previously been damaged by Forstmann himself, on December 5, 1915, when a shot across the bow accidentally hit the ship.



Ionian Sea:
Ernst von Voigt, in UC-35, sinks French freighter SS Annam, 6,075 tons, 20 miles west of Sapientza Island. His score is now 67 ships and 33,380 tons.



Aegean Sea:
Johannes Kirchner, in UC-34, sinks Greek sailing vessel Kleopatra, 160 tons, in the Doro Channel, between mainland Greece and the Isle of Andros. His score is now 7 vessels and 16,677 tons.



Mediterranean Sea:
Horst Obermüller, in UB-43, torpedoes British protected cruiser HMS Grafton, 7,350 tons; 150 miles east of Malta. The damaged ship makes port safely.

Wilhelm Marschall, in UC-74, sinks Egyptian sailing vessel Stylianos, 389 tons, somewhere between Malta and Port Said. His score is now 9 vessels and 28,902 tons.