9/13/2019 · Around 11 AM the next day RMS Carmania was patrolling the area and noticed smoke rising from Trindade’s only harbor. She decided to investigate, knowing that there were no other British ships in the area. As Carmania drew closer she could see Trafalgar, who Carmania originally believed to be a British ship due to her markings, and the two …
12/16/2018 · CARTOON 12-16-2018 During World War I, the RMS Carmania sank a German ship disguised as the RMS Carmania .
When she set sail she found herself sailing by…. the RMS Carmania . Which was the SMS Cap Trafalgar disguised as the Carmania . #29 to #4 – anon id: 727be38c, 12/8/2020 · One of these was the RMS Carmania. Built in 1905 by the British Cunard line, Carmania was an experiment: she was one of the first large passenger liners to.
12/8/2020 · One of the strangest naval battles of the First World War took place in September 1914, when a British “armed merchant cruiser” engaged a German “auxiliary cruiser” that was disguised as … itself. A contemporary painting of the “Cap Trafalgar” fighting the “Carmania” from Wiki Commons, SMS Cap Trafalgar was a German passenger ocean liner converted to an auxiliary cruiser during World War I.She was the first armed merchant cruiser sunk by a ship of the same class she was destroyed by RMS Carmania , also a converted ocean liner, in a furious action in the South Atlantic in September 1914.It was the world’s first battle between former ocean liners.
TIL that in WWI, the Germans converted liner SMS Cap Trafalgar into an armed merchant cruiser, which they then disguised as the British liner HMS Carmania. Off the coast of Brazil, Trafalgar was attacked and sunk by a British ship. That ship was also an armed merchant cruiser the real HMS Carmania.
The following is copied from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Ships#Armament AMC Carmania for ease of reference. Davidships 21:51, 16 February 2020 (UTC) The text about RMS Carmania (1905) states that this ship was equipped with QF 4.7-inch Mk V naval guns. There is a link for it also, but it says, that this canon was not in use by the Royal Navy …
5/10/2014 · In addition the Cap Trafalgar was disguised to look like a similar British Cunard line passenger liner called the 19,524-ton, 650-foot long RMS Carmania . The idea was that the Cap Trafalgar could approach British merchant and supply convoys with little suspicion of being a German warship.
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