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Description: | Photocopies of: a ts letter (2pp), dated April 1964, from Kendall to a retired German admiral, Otto W Steffan, concerning the action fought off the Brazilian island of Trindade in the South Atlantic on 14 September 1914 between the armed merchant cruiser HMS CARMANIA and the German armed merchant cruiser CAP TRAFALGAR; a ts memoir (4pp) by Kendall giving his recollections, as an Engineer RNR in CARMANIA, of the events of the day from the time that CAP TRAFALGAR was first sighted until she sank after a very fierce action between the two ships, often at close range and lasting for over an hour and a half, during which CARMANIA suffered extensive damage from almost eighty hits and had over thirty of her ship’s company killed or wounded; and Admiral Steffan’s ts memoir (5pp) describing how he joined CAP TRAFALGAR at sea from another German warship in late August 1914 and was appointed as her wireless officer and recording his experiences during the action in which CAP TRAFALGAR too sustained very considerable damage, but sank principally because of a major hit below her waterline, and also mentioning his subsequent rescue from the sea by the German supply ship ELEONORE WOERMANN from which he was landed in Buenos Aires.
Cataloguer RWAS | Publisher: | http://www.iwm.org.uk | Source: | Imperial War Museum | Creator: | Kendall, Harold | Identifier: | http://www.iwm.org.uk/collections/item/o... | Go to resource |
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