Ruare, Kenya

german east africa map

Summary: Pioneer as a blockading ship on the German East African coast where the German cruiser Königsberg had taken shelter up one of the mouths of the Rufigi River a few miles south of Zanzibar Sailing from Fremantle on 9 January 1915 Pioneer proceeded to the Cocos Islands where as she coaled from her attendant collier her crew inspected the wreck of the Emden destroyed by

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