BRITISH CRUISER'S £500,000 HAUL.

Pukekohe & Waiuku Times, Volume 3, Issue 251, 27 November 1914, Page 2 (Supplement)

BRITISH CRUISER'S £500,000 HAUL.

17 GERMAN LINERS AXD GUNBOAT. EMDEN RAIDS REVENGED. The Secretary of the Admiralty announces that H.M.S. Cumberland (Captain Cyril Fuller) has captured the following merchant steamers off the Camcroon River (West Africa): — Max Brock, Rvuata Amsinck., Paul Woermann. Sma Woermann, Henrietto Woermann, Aline Woermann, Htu.s Woermann, and Jeannette Woermann. all of the Woermann Line, and the

H.H.S Cumberland, photographed above, hud i-apturcd up to tlic <.":tl of Sol gunboat off the wc»t coa>t of Africa. I h t , report of her published I v off to the exploits of the Gorman cruiser Emdon i:i the Indian Ocean. Tli C nominal >\w\ of 'J3 knot>, carries a uuiii arniaiuoti ot fourteen : : -iiich gun?, Fuller. Eight of her prizes belonged l i the Woermann Line, and the nine in 30.001J tons A flouting dock and another .steamer, the Hertz

Arnfield, of the Haniburg-AineriLa Line. Total tonnage. 30.913. The vessels were in good orde''. mo-t of them containing general outward and homeward cargoes and con>idu*at>le quantities of coal. The European crews have been removed as prisoners, the native cngincrooni ratings being retained. The gunboat Soden was al»o captured, and has been coinmisMoiud; and it r. expected that the floating dock and the Hcrt/.ogin Elisabeth, v. Inch Iml been sunk, can be raised.

NINE STEAMERS AND A GUNBOAT: THE HAUL OF 11.U.5. CUMBERLAND

> Umber nine Gcrmau .steamers and a tlio Admiralty, came ns -,< welcome sol'iinikiiaiid. n cruiser of 9.MM ton.s and am] i> commanded bv Captain C.wii erehantmon together totalled ov«r o'iin Elisabetlt. were tunic.

The value for iiisiiranc" purposes <il th t > merchant vissol.* captures it> under stood to be about and wit c value of the respective cargoes ot board, the haul is estimated at Llovd's as being worth over CoOO.OOO. This is leaving out of account the caplurid guiiboal and the sunk dock. The eruis,r Cumlierland, which hai achieved ibis feat, was built in 1901 at Govan. She is 9.MHI ton.s displacement. ! with engine- of L'l'.OCM 1.h.n.. and her I spied is -'3 l knott. Her aimanunt ecusMs oi II 6-inch guns, c' l'J-poundu ■.-.. I ailcl 3 3-: i ounders