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The Indestructible Warship: WW1 Beyond the Trenches

submitted by Aard Vark

(oritteropo)
9 years 5 months 3 weeks ago

YouTube Description:

100 years ago, she was the fearsome German warship that ruled the waters of Lake Tanganyika; today the MV Liemba runs as the world's oldest passenger ferry. The Goetzen, as she was known then, was sent to East Africa where she defended Germany's colony against the Allied forces during World War One.
As part of a series looking at stories beyond the trenches of Europe, BBC Swahili's Zuhura Yunus travels to Tanzania and takes a journey aboard the indestructible warship.

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I love stuff like this. It makes me want to go take a ride.
What an ordeal getting it to Lake Tanganyika.
Say what you will, the Germans sure know how to build stuff to last.

The artillery was stripped from the wreck of the SMS Königsberg, which was scuttled after a prolonged engagement with British light cruisers and monitors in the delta of the Rufiji River, south of Dar es Salaam. Most guns were used as field artillery, but two of them were carried to Lake Tanganyika and installed aboard the Graf Goetzen.

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