An item reported that the German navy ordered the building of 5 colliers at the shipyard of Nüschke&Co., Stettin, Germany. Within the navy was men very pleases lacking a sufficient number of this kind of ships. Tests to build colliers to bunker coal at high sea were until then been without success. While the British, French and American navies possessed in large numbers auxiliary ships like floating workshops, hospital ships, colliers, fuel oil tankers and mother ships for torpedo boats did the German navy possessed none. In East Asia was the collier Titania added to the cruiser squadron.(1)
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1. Participated in the attack of the German light cruisers SMS Nürnberg on the Fanning Island cable relay station on 7 September 1914. The 1897 built Titania, scuttles at Mas-a-Fuera on 19 November 1914?
