May 24, 1916
Air War:
'A' Flight, No.70 Squadron take the first Sopwith 1-1/2 Strutters to France. These are the first Allied planes with a synchronizer and first British two-seater with the observer in the rear cockpit and the Lewis gun mounted on a ring.
Ligurian Sea:
Walter Forstmann, commanding U-39, sinks Spanish freighter SS Aurrera, 2,845 tons, bound from Glasgow for Livorno with a load of coal.
South Africa:
British monitor HMS Mersey leaves Durban harbour under own power for hull trials and test firing of fore and aft 6" guns.
Norwegian whaler Natal, 90 tons, out of Saldanha Bay for Capetown on a whaling expidition, runs aground at Robben Island.
German East Africa:
British troops capture and destroy the Ulenge lighthouse; observed by HMS Severn.
Australia:
Australian ketch Premier, 135 tons, tavelling from Newcastle, New South Wales, to Nambucca River, is wrecked off Wellington Rock.
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“Never do anything you can't take back.”
—Rocky Russo
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