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NEW BRITAIN, 1914-08. RABAUL ON SIMPSON HARBOUR, THE NORTHERN EXTENSION OF BLANCHE BAY, WAS THE ADMINISTRATIVE CENTRE OF ALL GERMAN POSSESSIONS IN THE PACIFIC. THIS PHOTOGRAPH SHOWS FOUR GERMAN WARSHIPS OF THE PACIFIC FLEET, THE CRUISERS SCHARNHORST, GNEISENAU, NURNBERG AND LEIPZIG. AT THE OUTBREAK OF WW1 IT WAS THOUGHT THAT THESE SHIPS MAY BE LYING IN BLANCHE BAY AND THREE AUSTRALIAN DESTROYERS, HMAS PARRAMATTA, WARREGO, YARRA, ACCOMPANIED BY THE LIGHT CRUISER HMAS SYDNEY, RAIDED THE BAY ON 1914-08-11 BUT FOUND IT EMPTY. (PHOTOGRAPH TAKEN BY THE REVEREND W.H. COX AND DONATED BY E. DARNELL.)
RABAUL, NEW BRITAIN. 1914-07. VIEW OF SIMPSON HARBOUR, THE NORTHERN ARM OF BLANCHE BAY, TAKEN FROM THE TOWNSHIP JUST BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WW1. THE VESSELS ARE THE GERMAN WARSHIPS SCHARNHORST, GNEISE
NEW BRITAIN. 1914. PANORAMA OF RABAUL AND BLANCHE BAY ON THE OCCASION OF A VISIT BY PART OF THE GERMAN PACIFIC FLEET SHORTLY BEFORE THE OUTBREAK OF WAR. THE SHIPS WERE THE SCHARNHORST, GNEISENAU, NURN
At Sea. c. November 1914. Ships of the German Navy off the coast of Chile. The photograph was taken from the Light Cruiser Dresden with next ahead Light Cruiser Nurnberg then Light Cruiser Leipzig, Cr
A map showing the apparent movements of the German Far Eastern Fleet and SMS Dresden, from the outbreak of the First World War until the action against the British ships Good Hope, Monmouth and Glasgo
Two German armoured cruisers, possibly the Scharnhorst and the Gneisenau. Each carried eight 8.2 inch guns, six 5.9 inch guns and 20 3.4 inch guns, and had a displacement of 11 600 tons; their respec
Rabaul, New Britain. 1914. Units of the German Naval Squadron at anchor in Blanche Bay before the arrival of the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force. (Donor W.H. Guard)
