May 1, 1916
Air War:
German ace Oswald Boelcke, flying a Fokker E.IV, shoots down an unidentified French biplane. Despite lack of confirmation Boelcke is awarded victory number 15.
Celtic Sea:
Walther Schwieger, commanding U-20, sinks French schooner Bernadette, 486 tons, bound from Fécamp for Newfoundland with a load of salt. Schwieger's score is now 27 ships and 113,724 tons.
English Channel:
British freighter SS Caterham, 3,411 tons, sinks eight miles off Eastbourne. Further details unknown.
North Sea:
Vicktor Dieckmann, in UB-27, torpedoes Brazilian freighter SS Rio Branco, 2,258 tons, en route from Chrisiania to Hull with a general cargo. His score is now 4 ships and 3,707 tons.
German destroyer S123 hits a mine near the island of Sylt, off the coast of Denmark.
British freighter SS Hendonhall, 3,994 tons, carrying a load of wheat from Portland, Maine to Rotterdam, hits a mine laid by Alfred Nitzsche in UC-10, bringing his score to 12 ships and 23,874 tons.
Indian Ocean:
Norwegian schooner SV Vardvik, 393 tons, travelling from Quelimane, Mozambique to Beria (modern Veria), Greece, is wrecked shortly after departing Quelimane.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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