Naval actions on Lake Tanganyika

[Guest raasay]

When the British gunboat flotilla on Lake Tanganyika captured the German gunboat 'Kingani' it was described (in The Phantom Flotilla') as being the first instance of a German warship being captured by a British one.

When the flotilla sank the German gunboat 'Hedwig von Wissmann' a few days later and recovered a German naval ensign, it was described as the first ever captured.

Are these statements correct?

Brian Duncan

Gettysburg, PA

Author of 'The Settler' and 'Lake of Slaves'

[Darlaston Remembered]

Probably not, it depends on what is considered a warship. The Royal Navy captured German 'gunboats' in the German West African colony of Kammerun in September 1915. They may well have had Ensigns on board.

[Darloboy]

On 28/07/2014 at 22:20, Darlaston Remembered said:

Probably not, it depends on what is considered a warship. The Royal Navy captured German 'gunboats' in the German West African colony of Kammerun in September 1915. They may well have had Ensigns on board.

It was September 1914.