Diary January 18, 1917

01-1917, Diary WWI, War Diary, Year 1917 / 1 minute of reading

destroyer 'Jackal' — The destroyer ‘Jackal’, which belongs like ‘Ferret’ to the British I-class from 1911.

World War One Diary for Thursday, January 18, 1917:

Sea War

Channel: UC-18 torpedoes Royal Navy destroyer Ferret, but latter survives to be converted to a minelayer.
South Atlantic: Raider Wolf lays 29 mines off Cape Agulhas, Sout Africa; 2 ships sunk and only 7 mines swept in 1917.
Black Sea: Russian submarine Nervel sinks 3,000t steamer; 440 mines added to fields off Bosphorus.

Southern Fronts

Greece: British Military attaché and Chief Control Officer reports 8,948 Greek troops; 3,132 animals, 78 guns and 62 MGs have transferred to Peloponnese in past month.

Middle East

Arabia: Feisal begins final march on Wejh.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

Sea War

Southern Fronts

Middle East

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