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Friday, 16 August 2013

British steamship Charcas destroyed by German auxiliary cruiser Prins Eitel Frederich according to the Dutch newspaper Nieuwsblad van Friesland dated 9 December 1914

An item dated Santiago 7 December referred to a tiding received from the naval authorities in the small port Papudo near Valparaiso that the crew of the British steamship Charcas was set on land by the German auxiliary cruiser Prins Eitel Friederich. The Charcas was destroyed off Corral by the German ship.(1)

Note 
1. The newspaper Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant dated 8 December reported that she measured 5.007 gross and 3.254 net tons, built in 1906 and owned by the New York and Pacific Company in London.