[Sailor Steve]

June 13, 1917

Air War:
0845 English RFC pilot Harry George Ernest Luchford and Scottish observer James Tennant, flying FE.2d A6516, shoot down an Albatros D.III. Victory number 1 for Luchford, number 2 for Tennant.

2000 English RNAS pilot Anthony Arnold, in Sopwith Triplane N6290, shoots down an Albatros D.III for victory number 5. This is Arnold's last victory. He will transfer to instructory duties, then command No. 79 Squadron. Rising to the rank of Wing Commander in 1936, he will later leave the service and work for a bank until his death in 1954.



Ireland:
Alfred Saalwächter, Commanding U-94, sinks Norwegian freighter SS Cederic, 2,344 tons, bound from New York for Liverpool with a general cargo; off Tory Island. His score is now 12 ships and 21,423 tons.



Celtic Sea:
Kurt Heeseler, in U-54, sinks British freighter SS Darius, 3,426 tons. en route from Villaricos to Tyne with a load of iron ore. His score is now 2 ships and 4,949 tons.

Hans Adam, in U-82, uses his deck gun to sink Norwegian freighter SS Storegut, 2,557 tons, headed from Philadelphia to Le Havre with a load of oil and paraffin wax. His score is now 15 ships and 31,544 tons.



Faroe Bank:
Ernst Wilhelms, in U-69, sinks British freighter SS Kelvinbank, 4,072 tons, carrying a general cargo from Liverpool and Glasgow to Archangelsk; 100 miles north of Cape Wrath, Scotland. His score is now 28 ships and 87,004 tons.



North Sea:
Ernst Hashagen, in U-62, sinks two Norwegian sailing vessels off Utsira Island:
Candace, 395 tons, carrying coal from West Hartlepool to Uddevalla.
Sylvia, 148 tons, hauling coal from Blyth to Stavanger.
Hashagen's score is now 29 vessels and 39,363 tons.



Günther Krause, in UB-41, uses his deck gun to sink British coaster SS Silverburn, 284 tons, hauling a load of coal from Sunderland to Peterhead. His score is now 6 ships and 5,098 tons.



Skagerrak:
Karl Ruprecht, in UB-33, takes Swedish coaster SS Gertie, 257 tons, underway from Gothenburg to Hull with a load of iron and steel, as a prize. His score is now 2 ships and 807 tons. This is Ruprecht's last sinking. He will survive the war and leave the naval service in 1920.



Bay of Biscay:
Kurt Ramien, in UC-48, scuttles French schooner Ernestine, 160 tons, carrying a load of wood from France to England; off Cap Ferret. His score is now 34 vessels and 53,628 tons.



Ligurian Sea:
Ernst Krafft, in U-72, sinks two Italian sailing vessels off Cape Camarat (south of Cannes):
Santo, 622 tons; gun.
Biagio, 276 tons, scuttled.
Krafft's score is now 19 vessels and 30,133 tons.



Sicily:
Alfred Klatt, in UC-38, torpedoes British freighter SS St. Andrews, 3,613 tons, carrying a load of grain from Karachi to Marseille; off Cape Sparviento, the southernmost tip of Sicily. His score is now 23 ships and 24,688 tons.



Aegean Sea:
Johannes Kirchner, in UC-23, sinks Greek sailing vessel Aghios Nicolaos, 120 tons, off the island of Icaria. his score is now 8 vessels and 16,797 tons.