British armoured cruiser HMS Minotaur visited Tandjong-Priok, Dutch East Indies in 1914

The Jaarboek van de Koninklijke Nederlandsche Zeemacht 1913-1914 reported that the British armoured cruiser HMS Minotaur visited Tandjong-Priok, Dutch East Indies on 5 September 1914. The Dutch newspaper Bataviaasch nieuwsblad dated 15 August 1914 reported that she was the flagship of vice admiral F.H. Jerram commanding officer captain E.B. Kiddle. The Dutch Provinciale Drentsche en Asser courant dated 9 September referred to American newspapers which reported the arrival of 2 heavily damaged cruisers both with 4 funnels and a large number of wounded on board arriving on 13 August at Hong Kong which were the Hampshire and Minotaur or the French armoured cruisers Duplex and Montcalm after a battle with the German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau 3 weeks earlier. Berlin, London and Paris denied such event. The German ships met their final fate in the Battle of the Falkland Islands on 8 December 1914

Note

1. Part of the Minotaur-class, preceded by Warrior-class, laid down by Devonport Dockyard, United Kingdom on 2 January 1905, launched on 6 June 1906, commissioned on 1 April 1908, decommissioned on 5 February 1919 and sold to be broken up in April 1920.