Mooring vessel HMS Steady mined and sunk off Newhaven.

Destroyer HMS Beaufort laid down.

GERMANY: Colonel Kammhuber is assigned to build up a night fighter organisation.

U.S.A.: Roosevelt wins the Democratic nomination for the presidential elections.

Destroyer USS Plunkett commissioned.

ATLANTIC OCEAN:

At 0005, U-34 began shelling the Naftilos until she sank at 0110. All 28 crewmembers abandoned ship safely, but one man later died of wounds.

At 1040, the Fellside, a straggler from Convoy OA-184, was torpedoed and sunk by U-43 about 135 miles NW of Bloody Foreland. The master and 20 crewmembers were rescued and landed at Liverpool.

At 2222, the Manipur in Convoy HX-55A was torpedoed and sunk by U-57 eight miles NW of Cape Wrath. 14 crewmembers were lost. The master and 64 crewmembers were picked up by destroyer HMCS Skeena and landed at Rosyth.

At 0410, the OA Brodin was hit amidships by one torpedo from U-57 and sank after 45 minutes. The ship had been missed by a first torpedo at 0405, a surface runner.