[Sailor Steve]

May 21, 1916

First order for 50 Sopwith Pups is made.

Air War:
1400 Australian pilot Roderic Dallas, in Nieuport 11 3991, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 3.

In the morning German ace Oswald Boelcke, flying a Fokker E.IV, shoots down a Nieuport fighter. Later in the afternoon he shoots down a Nieuport two-seater. Victories number 17 and 18.

French pilot Andre Chainat, flying a Nieuport 10 or 11, shoots down a German two-seater for victory number 3.

French ace Wilhelm Frankl, in a Fokker E.III, downs FE.2b 5206 for number 6. Cpt Charles Ernest Hilton James and 2nd Lt Henry Leslie Cautley Aked are both taken prisoner.

French ace Jean Navarre, in a Nieuport 11, shoots down a German two-seater for kill number 11.

German pilot Franz Walz and observer Martin Gerlich, flying a two-seater, bring down A Nieuport for victory number 2.

German pilot Kurt Wintgens, in a Fokker E.III, shoots down a French Caudron G.4 for kill number 5. Brigadier Vincent and SLt René Gauthier are both killed.



Baltic Sea:
Swedish freighter SS Rosalind, 850 tons, travelling in ballast from Copenhagen to Stugsund, hits a mine and sinks.



Bay of Biscay:
Spanish freighter SS Manuel-Camara, 1,574 tons, travelling in ballast from Bayonne, France to Castro Urdiales, Spain, runs aground near Cabo Machichaco.



Balearic Sea:
Claus Rücker, commanding U-34, sinks French sailing vessel Myosotis, 356 tons, and scuttles Norwegian freighter SS Tjømø, 1,453 tons, bound from Barry to Genoa with a load of coal. Both take place northeast of Majorca, and 36 ships and 110,074 tons.



Straight of Messina:
Walter Forstmann, in U-39, captures and scuttles Italian freighter SS Birmania, 2,215 tons, and sinks Italian sailing vessel Rosalia Madre, 251 tons, for a new total of 58 ships and 132,479 tons.