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05-08-15, 10:35 AM | #766 |
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8th May 1915
Western Front Second Battle of Ypres: British lose Frezenberg Ridge under terrific shelling. Eastern Front Germans take Libau. Further Russian retreat in Galicia. Southern Front 2nd Battle of Krithia ends in an Ottoman victory as Allied troops suffer more than one-third casualties. Naval North Sea Limewold, armed trawler, 189/1898, Grimsby-reg, hired 12/14, 1-6pdr, CO on shore sick, Acting Skipper C Bond i/c, on patrol. Shell burst close to the bows at 0430, 20 miles E of Peterhead, submarine spotted one and half miles away right astern and closing fast, turned and returned fire, claimed hit on waterline abreast of conning tower with fifth shot when range down to 600yds, submarine submerged. Admiralty collier (and one steamship) captured and torpedoed by U.9 (Johannes Spiess): DON, Admiralty collier, 939/1892, Lancashire & Yorkshire Railway Co, Goole-reg, Mr W Adron, sailing Cromarty for Blyth in ballast. Sank around 0440, 7 miles E of Coquet Isle, off Amble (wi - in 55.21N, 01.20W). Political etc. German shops in Liverpool are attacks by mobs in anger over the Lusitania sinking. Ship Losses: Don ( United Kingdom): The collier was torpedoed and sunk in the North Sea 7 nautical miles (13 km) east of Coquet Island by SM U-9 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived. Hellenic ( United Kingdom): The trawler struck a mine and sank in the North Sea with the loss of three of her nine crew. Lilian Drost ( Denmark): The cargo ship was sunk in the North Sea (56°40′N 4°00′E) by SM U-36 ( Kaiserliche Marine). Her crew survived. Queen Wilhelmina ( United Kingdom): The cargo ship was torpedoed and damaged in the North Sea off the Longstone Lighthouse by SM U-9 ( Kaiserliche Marine). She was beached at Amble, Northumberland and was a total loss.
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05-08-15, 11:58 AM | #767 |
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May 8:
Johannes Spieß, commanding U-9, sinks two British freighters: SS Don, 939 tons, bound from Comarty to Blyth in ballast, and Queen Wilhelmina, 3,590 tons, tavelling from Leith to Fowey, also in ballast. His score is now 12 ships and 6,438 tons. Aboard U-36 Ernst Graeff scores his first victory, sinking the Danish freighter Lilian Drost, 1,966 tons, heading from Blyth to Copenhagen with a load of coal. Saudi Arabia: Hellmuth von Mücke and his men say goodbye to Suleiman Pasha and board the special train assigned to take them from Al Ula across the Turkish Empire to Constantinople.
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05-09-15, 02:55 AM | #768 |
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^ Not(quite) sunk: QUEEN WILHELMINA, 3,590/1898, Furness, Withy & Co, Sunderland, London-reg, Mr E Dickinson, Leith for Fowey in ballast. Hit and damaged 20 miles S by E of Longstone, Outer Farne Is (L - 20 miles N by W of), beached at Bondicar, 1½m SSE of Amble (55.19N, 01.26W), total loss (+L/te/un/wi) Crew loss reported as 0. http://www.naval-history.net/WW1NavyBritishBVLSMN1504.htm
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05-09-15, 09:43 AM | #769 | |
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Precisely and as already posted:
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05-09-15, 10:03 AM | #770 |
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9th May 1915
Western Front Second Battle of Ypres: British retake Wieltje. They fail in an attack on Aubers ridge (Neuve Chapelle). 2nd Battle of Artois begins as French forces launch an offensive against Germans at Vimy Ridge. The leading division of the British New Armies leaves England for France. Eastern Front Germans defeated at Krakinow (Baltic Provinces). Naval Suez Canal area FANNY, tug, no further information, probably civilian vessel but crew included at least three ratings from armoured cruiser HMS Euryalus. Lost in accidental sinking; three ratings drowned, two of them buried at Ismailia, near Suez. Search for survivors of the Lusitania sinking are abandoned as Cunard officials believe all remaining living passengers have been rescued. The U.S. Atlantic Fleet sails into New York City for review; questions are raised over U.S.’s war readiness. Political etc. President Wilson states he is “very earnestly but very calmly” considering the response to the Lusitania sinking. Simon Lake, American pioneer of the submarine, predicts that German submarine warfare will decide the war. German embassy in Washington DC receives a bomb threat; city police forces tighten security around the embassy. King Wilhelm writes to the King of Italy to urge that Italy and Austria-Hungary settle their territorial disputes peacefully. Chinese President Yuan Shikai is forced to accept the revised 21 Demands to avoid war with Japan.
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05-09-15, 10:55 AM | #771 |
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May 9:
Red Sea: 0500 HMS Trent picks up wireless message between German warships. Worried that Königsberg may have managed to elude King-Hall's forces and be heading their way, Captain Fullerton orders the convoy to turn back toward the Suez Canal. 0800 Unable to raise Suez on the wireless, Fullerton reverses course and heads south again. 2359: A large ship is spotted approaching from astern. When in sight of the tugs the ship puts out its lights. After some panic the ship turns out to be the freighter Trioba, which had suffered a dynamo failure at the most inopportune time. German East Africa: 1330 HMS Laconia launches Short No. 121 for another reconnaissance flight. 1425 Short 121 comes down some distance away. 1445 HMS Chatham weighs anchor and proceeds to Short 121's position. 1458 Laconia weighs anchor and proceeds to Short 121's position. 1525 Chatham sights Short 121. 1545 Chatham and HMS Fly guarding Short 121. 1614 Laconia anchors next to Short 121 1645 Short 121 hoisted aboard Laconia. No information is given on why Short 121 failed to make it back to Laconia.
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05-10-15, 02:12 PM | #772 |
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10th May 1915
Western Front French take cemetery of Neuville St. Vaast and part of Carency (north of Arras). British repulsed on Aubers ridge. Eastern Front German retreat in Baltic Provinces. Naval and Overseas Operations North Sea Dominion, battleship, King Edward VII-class, returning to Rosyth after cruise in northern North Sea with rest of 3rd BS, also 3rd CS, all Grand Fleet, divisions in line ahead, zigzagging at 15kts, had not yet met screening destroyers. (ge - 8th; Cn - May 1916) - unsuccessfully attacked by U.39 about 100 miles ENE of Firth of Forth, two torpedoes missed. Submarine E14 sinks a transport in the Sea or Marmora. Naval Convention signed between Great Britain, France, and Italy. North Sea Swedish steamer Björn 1,241 tons enroute to the UK from Göteborg with a cargo of timber was taken as a prize by U 36 (Ernst Graeff). The same fate befell the Dutch steamer Niobe 654 tons to the same submarine that day. Danish steamer Olga 798 tons was taken as a prize by U 39 (Walter Forstmann). Aviation Four German zeppelins raid Britain, dropping bombs on Southend, Westcliff-on-Sea, and Leigh. Political, etc. President Wilson on the "Lusitania". "There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight," etc. German government: “The German government desires to express its deepest sympathy at the loss of lives on board the Lusitania. The responsibility rests, however, with the British government, which…has forced Germany to resort to retaliatory measures.” Winston Churchill, First Lord of the Admiralty, is questioned in the House of Commons over the Lusitania sinking. Italy gives the Austro-Hungarian government until midnight to accede to territorial demands or else negotiations will be terminated. Stories appear of a Canadian soldier supposedly crucified by Germans; it is later used as Allied propaganda.
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05-10-15, 03:04 PM | #773 | |
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Entente propaganda was pretty reluctant and civilised. Just as it is now, with "the west".
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05-10-15, 04:08 PM | #774 | |
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May 10:
Air War: German observer Wilhelm Frankl, riding in an unidentifed two-seater with an unnamed pilot, shoots down a Voisin with a carbine. For this feat he will be awarded the Iron Cross, 1st class. Louis Strange is flying a sortie in his new Martinsyde Scout when he encounters an Aviatik two-seater. His first attack in a single-seat fighter is almost his last. I have already posted this in my 'Models' thread, but his own account of the story is certainly worth repeating here. Quote:
North Sea: Ernst Graeff, commanding U-36, takes two prizes - Swedish steamer SS Björn, 1,241 tons, carrying a load of timber from Göteborg to the United Kingdom, and the Dutch freighter SS Niobe, 654 tons, destination and cargo unlisted. Graeff will only recieve credit for Björn, as the prize court will later release Niobe. His score is now 2 ships and 3,237 tons. Walter Forstmann in U-39 captures Danish steamer SS Olga, 798 tons. This ship will also be released by the prize court. Red Sea: The day is extremely hot. Captain Fullerton aboard Trent tells the tugs' captains that he will send fresh meat and ice when the sea is calmer.
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05-11-15, 12:26 PM | #775 |
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11th May 1915
Western Front Second Battle of Ypres: Germans bombard Ypres-Menin road. French take fort and chapel of Notre Dame de Lorette. Eastern Front Germans evacuate Shavli. Austro-German advance in Galicia. Russians fall back to the San River. Asiatic and Egyptian Theatres Russian progress in the district of Tabriz. Naval and Overseas Operations French take Eseka (Cameroons). An early attempt to intercept an airship with a shipborne aircraft takes place in the North Sea when the Royal Navy seaplane tender HMS Ben-my-Chree tries to launch a Royal Naval Air Service Sopwith seaplane to attack a German Zeppelin sighted low on the horizon. Political etc. Italian government orders all Italian officers and men in Switzerland to immediately return home and rejoin their regiments. In a report to the House of Commons, Britain has lost 201 merchant vessels and 1,556 civilian lives due to enemy naval action. Estimates show that U.S. insurance companies will pay up to $1.05 million ($25.1 million today) for the Lusitania sinking. British newspapers attack U.S. neutrality with the phrase: “Too Proud to Fight.”
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05-11-15, 12:38 PM | #776 |
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May 11:
Red Sea: Calmer seas allow the monitors' convoy to stop. Captain Fullerton sends the promised ice and meat to the tugs. The tugs have no form of air conditioning and older crew members begin to suffer when temperatures in the fire rooms reach 145 degrees fahrenheit (63C).
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05-12-15, 01:12 PM | #777 |
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12th May 1915
Western Front French capture Carency. Eastern Front Germans occupy Kyeltsi (Poland). Austro-German advance in Galicia and north of Uzsok Pass. Austrian retreat south of Pruth. Southern Front Dardanelles: Cape Tekeh ("Gurka Bluff") captured by Gurkas. Naval and Overseas Operations The HMS Goliath is sunk by a Ottoman torpedo boat, resulting in 570 deaths. GOLIATH, battleship, Canopus-class, 14,300t, 1898, 4-12in/12-6in/12-12pdr/4-18in tt, 18 kts, c750 crew, Pennant No.N.54, 8th BS Channel Fleet 8/14, later to Mediterranean, Capt Thomas Shelford. French forces under heavy attack inland of S-Beach, night of 12th/13th, Goliath and Cornwallis providing gunfire support, both anchored in exposed position in Morto Bay off Seddul Bahr village, Cornwallis astern of Goliath, destroyers Beagle, Bulldog, Pincher, Scorpion, Wolverine on patrol, night very dark, foggy around midnight, attacks were suspected. Turkish destroyer Muavenet-i-Miliet, partly German-manned and commanded by Lt-Cdr Rudoph Firle came down the Dardanelles, avoided Bulldog and Beagle around 0100, spotted the battleships and came round Eski Hissarlik Point under De Totts battery, challenged by Goliath at 0115 but steamed ahead and fired all three torpedo tubes as Goliath opened fire, one torpedo hit abreast fore turret, a second by the foremost funnel, and the third near after turret, ship immediately began listing badly to port and soon on beam ends, turned turtle, floated for a few minutes, then went down bow first; 505 lives lost - 20 officers including her Captain, 479 ratings and 4 canteen staff, 2 ratings DOW (Cn/He/ke - 570 men lost, 180 survivors). Wolverine and Scorpion tried to cut off the torpedo boat as it headed back up the Straits but failed. Union forces occupy Windhoek (German south-west Africa). Political, etc. Report of Bryce Committee published. Anti-Germans riots in England. Sir Edward Grey reports that typhus fever is spreading among British POWs in several German camps. Britain’s national guard is dubbed “Methusaliers” due to it being composed of men above fighting age. Austria-Hungary orders all of its ships in Italian waters to leave for Austrian ports. Ship Losses: HMS Goliath ( Royal Navy): Naval operations in the Dardanelles Campaign: The Canopus-class battleship was torpedoed and sunk by Muâvenet-i Millîye ( Ottoman Navy) in the Dardanelles with the loss of 570 of her 700 crew.
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05-12-15, 01:23 PM | #778 |
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May 12:
Air War: Lt. Harold Rosher was sent to England to fly a new BE.2c from Hendon back to Dunkirk. On this day he has his father meet him there for lunch. At 1500 hours Rosher takes off to fly the new machine back to France, but engine troubles force him to return. Rosher finds himself grounded for several days while mechanics try to determine the problem. Red Sea: Collier Kendal Castle is sent forward to Aden to make preparations for the arrival of the monitors' convoy.
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05-13-15, 07:32 AM | #779 |
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13th May 1915
Western Front Second Battle of Ypres: Very severe German bombardment. Cavalry, etc., hold on. French complete conquest of Bois le Pretre. Eastern Front German and Austro-Hungarian troops under General von Linsingen make further advances in the Carpathians and capture 3650 Russians. Russians retreat in Galicia. Russians occupy Sniatyn (River Pruth). Political, etc. Premier Asquith announces in the House of Commons that all citizens of enemy countries of military age will be interned. In another round of rioting, mobs destroy 150 German owned shops in East End in London. Italy: Signor Salandra resigns. German Sovereigns struck off the Garter roll. Kaiser Wilhelm’s membership in the Order of the Garter, the highest order of chivalry in the United Kingdom, is annulled. While Julian Grenfell stands talking with other officers, a shell lands a few yards away, and a splinter hits him in the head. He is taken to a hospital in Boulogne, where he dies 13 days later. His poem "Into Battle" is published in The Times the day after his death. Into Battle BY JULIAN GRENFELL The naked earth is warm with Spring, And with green grass and bursting trees Leans to the sun's gaze glorying, And quivers in the sunny breeze; And life is Colour and Warmth and Light, And a striving evermore for these; And he is dead who will not fight, And who dies fighting has increase. The fighting man shall from the sun Take warmth, and life from glowing earth; Speed with the light-foot winds to run And with the trees to newer birth; And find, when fighting shall be done, Great rest, and fulness after dearth. All the bright company of Heaven Hold him in their bright comradeship, The Dog star, and the Sisters Seven, Orion's belt and sworded hip: The woodland trees that stand together, They stand to him each one a friend; They gently speak in the windy weather; They guide to valley and ridges end. The kestrel hovering by day, And the little owls that call by night, Bid him be swift and keen as they, As keen of ear, as swift of sight. The blackbird sings to him: "Brother, brother, If this be the last song you shall sing, Sing well, for you may not sing another; Brother, sing." In dreary doubtful waiting hours, Before the brazen frenzy starts, The horses show him nobler powers; — O patient eyes, courageous hearts! And when the burning moment breaks, And all things else are out of mind, And only joy of battle takes Him by the throat and makes him blind, Through joy and blindness he shall know, Not caring much to know, that still Nor lead nor steel shall reach him, so That it be not the Destined Will. The thundering line of battle stands, And in the air Death moans and sings; But Day shall clasp him with strong hands, And Night shall fold him in soft wings.
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05-13-15, 10:23 AM | #780 |
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May 13:
United States President Woodrow Wilson sends an official protest over the Lusitania sinking to the German Ambassador, signed by Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan. http://wwi.lib.byu.edu/index.php/Wil...ote_to_Germany Middle East: The train carrying Helmuth von Mucke and his men passes from Saudi Arabia into Syria.
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