Marauders of the Sea, German Armed Merchant Ships During W.W. 2

Photo album

Shown above is one of the largest raiders, the North German lloyd Line's express steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grobe.
A voracious coal-eater, she often had to be refuelled at sea and it was on one such occasion that
she was attacked by the British light cruiser HMS Highflyer on August 26th, 1914.
Burning from several fires caused by the attack, she was sunk by her own crew.

 
 
Shown above is one of the largest raiders, the North German lloyd Line's express steamer Kaiser Wilhelm der Grobe.

 


    

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