[Sailor Steve]

August 16, 1916

Air War:
0835 English RFC pilot John Bowley Qiested and observer W.J. Wyatt, in FE.2b 6931, shoot down a Roland C.II for victory number 1.

0910 English ace Albert Ball, flying Nieuport 17 A201, shoots down a Roland C.II for victory number 8.

Italian pilot Mario Stoppani, in a Nieuport 11, downs an "Enemy Aircraft" for victory number 3




Tyrrhenian Sea:
1200 Lothar von Arnauld de la Perière, commanding U-35, scuttles Italian Barque Madre, 665 tons, near the southern tip of Sardinia. His total is now 100 ships and 191,306 tons.



German East Africa:
More action at Bagamoyo:
0337 Whalers Charon, Childers, Echo and Styx open fire on shore positions. German shore guns return fire.
0530 Monitor Severn enters Msasani Bay.
0545 Severn opens fire on German 8.8cm gun on hilside.
0600 Battleship Vengeance begins 12" gun bombardment of gun positions around Msasani Bay.
0625 Severn ceases fire, acts as spotter for Vengeance.
0730 Vengeance ceases bombardment, moves to new position.
0850 Vengeance stops at Hammond Rock and opens fire with 6" guns on Ros Rongoni.
0950 Vengeance opens fire on observation tower at Kurasini and railway station at Dar-Es-Salaam.
1020 Vengeance ceases fire.

HMS Challenger patrols Bagamoyo in a support position.



South Africa:
French barque La Blanche, 2,579 tons, carrying a load of coal from Durban, South Africa to Montevideo, Uruguay, is lost to a fire off the Cape of Good Hope. All 23 crew are rescued by French barque SS General Sonis.



United States:
American motor fishing vessel Agnes W, 8 tons, is crushed by ice in the Lynn Canal, near Juneau, Alsaska. Crew of 5 all saved.

American scow Pup No. 1, 24 tons, is crushed by ice in the Delta River, near Chena, Alaska.



Carribean Sea:
American Great Lakes-type freighter SS Admiral Clark, 2,321 tons, bound from Port Arthur, Texas for Buenos Aires, founders in a hurricane off Cape Santa Antonio, Cuba. Twenty crew members lost, six others rescued from raft five days later by Swedish barque Tana.