German submarine SM UC-74 torpedoed French steamship Parana according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 28 August 1917

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An item reported that on 23 August a German submarine [SM UC-74] torpedoed the French steamship Parana (6,249 tons) in the Aegean Sea.(1)

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1. Type UC II submarine preceded by UC I succeeded by UC III. Ordered on 12 January 1916, laid down by AG Vulcan, Hamburg, Germany with yard number 79, launched on 19 October 1916, commissioned on 25 November 1916, interned at Barcelona, Spain on 21 November 1919, surrendered to France on 26 March 1919 and broken up at Toulon, France in July 1921. 

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Bundesarchiv RM-40-622

German plane attacked Greek air force base Thasos according to the Kriegsnachrichten of the Chef des Admiralstabes der Marine dated Berlin 4 August 1917

An item reported that in the night of 2-3 August a plane of the seaplane station Xanti attacked the air force base Thasos with bombs causing fire and several explosions which could be seen from Xanthi. Probably was a gasoline storage hit. The next morning sighted other planes from Xanthi that the building in the middle on Thasos completely was destroyed by fire. South of it were heavily smoking heaps of rubble lying.(1)

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1. The German seaplane station (Seeflugstation) at Xanti [Bulgaria, nowadays Greece) was located near the Aegean Sean operated by the Imperial Navy, especially active in the region of Porto Lagos

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Bundesarchiv RM-40-622