HMS Cumberland
An item dated London 1 October reported that the British Admiralty announced the capture by the cruiser HMS Cumberland (1) of eight steamships belonging to the steam shipping line of the Woermann Linie (2)and Arnfield of the Hamburg-Amerika Linien with a total tonnage of 30,915 tons and the gunboat Soden (3) at the Cameroon-river.(4) It was expected that the scuttled floating dock and the Herzogin Elisabeth could be salvaged.
Notes
1.. Of the Monmouth armoured cruiser class , laid down by London and Glasgow Shipbuildingm Govan, SCotland on 19 February 1901, launched on 16 December 1902, commissioned on 1 December 1904, paid off in April 1920 and sold to be broken up on 9 May 1921.
2. Headquarters in Hamburg, Germany, and sold to the Deutsche Ost-Afrika Linie in 1916.
3. A stern wheel river gunboat which was commissioned in the British Royal Navy?
1. Cameroon was between 1884 and 1919 the German colony Kamerun and then divided into a British and a French Cameroon. Douala was captured during a British-French landing on 27 September.
