June 9, 1916
Richard Caswell Saufley, American pioneer of naval aviation technology and holder of altitude and endurance records in a seaplane, is killed in a crash at Santa Rosa Island while trying to set a new endurance record at Pensacola, Florida. He had been aloft for eight hours and fifty-one minutes when the crash occurred.
North Sea:
Norwegian freighter SS Bure, 1,151 tons, bound from England for Norway, hits a mine laid by an unknown ship, and sinks with the loss of one crew member.
United States:
Canadian schooner Virginian, 100 tons, carrying a load of wood from Clementsport, Nova Scotia to Lynn, Massachusetts, is wrecked at Salesbury Beach, New Hampshire.
Australia:
Australian ferries Daphne, 65 tons, and Leichhardt, 68 tons, are lost in a fire at Balmain, Waterview Bay, just outside Sydney Harbour. No passengers are onboard either ship at the time.
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