history · 11 July 1915 · 109 years ago
The German cruiser, SMS Königsberg, which had been blockaded in the Rufiji delta in East Africa by a squadron on twenty-five Allied vessels for half a year, was finally sunk by two shallow-draught monitors. Her crew and guns, dismounted from the ship, joined the forces of Colonel Paul von Lettow-Vorbeck.
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