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Battle of Cocos
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The naval Battle of Cocos took place on 9 November 1914 during World War I off the Cocos Islands, in the north east Indian Ocean. The German light cruiser SMS Emden attacked the British cable station on Direction Island and was engaged several hours later by HMAS Sydney, an Australian light cruiser. The battle was the first ship-against-ship engagement for the Royal Australian Navy. The Emden was launched in 1908; it became the representative of the Kaiserliche Marine at the German colony of Tsingtao, in China and was part of the German East Asia Squadron. After war broke out on August 4, 1914, the squadron was ordered to avoid the superior Allied naval forces in the Pacific, and it headed for Germany, by way of Cape Horn. The sole exception was the Emden, under Korvettenkapitän Karl von Müller, which headed towards the Indian Ocean with the objective of raiding Allied shipping. Müller frequently made use of a fake fourth smokestack, which, when the ship flew the Royal Navy ensign, made the ship resemble the British cruiser HMS Yarmouth and certain other vessels.
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- Allgemeine Informationen
- Titel Battle of Cocos
- Format Fachbuch
- EAN 9786130806149
- Herausgeber Alphascript Publishing
- Anzahl Seiten 100
- Editor Frederic P. Miller, Agnes F. Vandome, John McBrewster
- Genre Geschichte
- GTIN 09786130806149
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