Tuesday 14 May 1918 We Lost 457
by greatwarliveslost
The destroyer HMS Phoenix (Lieutenant Richard Harter) becomes the only British warship to be sunk by the Austrian Navy in the Great War. She is torpedoed by U-27 with the loss of two crew members.
- ERA4 Charles Arthur Freeman age 28
- Leading Stoker Thomas Roland Courtney
Corporal Robert Reginald Chapman DCM (Australian Infantry) is killed in action at age 30.