May 5, 1916
Air War:
0900 Austran pilot Karl Urban and Bohemia-born observer Otto Jäger, flying Albatros B.I 22.10, shoot down a three-seat bomber. Victory number 1 for both.
German pilot Kurt Reinert and observer Erich Bönisch, in an unidentified two-seater, shoot down a Nieuport 12 for victory number 1.
Irish Sea:
British schooner James W. Fisher, 153 tons, carrying a load of coal from Ellesmere Port to Granville, is wrecked at West Bull Bay, Amlwch, Wales.
North Sea:
Ernst Hashagen begins his career in UB-21 with the sinking of Swedish schooner Harald, 275 tons, bound from Goteborg to Tyne with a load of pit props.
German East Africa:
British battleship HMS Vengeance stands by while monitor HMS Severn and armed whales Styx and Charon cover the advance of troops in motorboats into the mouth of the Simba Uranga River. The troops capture two skiffs and seven native troops, but find no other opposition. Back at Tirene Major Brooks and his sixty troops return to their shore posts.
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