#sms emden

[perkymatthews]

I have gotten you a gift, human. Put it on for Emden, won't you? "Our gift suits you so well, Darling human♥️"

[silver-san-arts]

Happiest of birthdays to @randomgurustuffs! I remember the Emden was in your top 5 ships list so I couldn't resist hehe

[redarmyscreaming]

SMS Emden run aground after being run down by HMAS Sidney (1914).

[pitch-and-moan]

Vampirates

The untold story of the crew of the ship Dracula takes to England. After being eaten one by one by Dracula during his voyage, they slowly reassemble, and sail the world as a vampire pirate crew. Eventually they reach an accord with the Royal Australian Navy on the eve of World War I, even participating in the hunt for the SMS Emden.

[thisdayinwwi]

The Great Escape of the SMS Emden Raiders

During #WWI the German Imperial Raider SMS Emden sank 2 warships and sank or captured 17 Allied merchant vessels.   

On November 9, 1914, the German Raider sent a raiding party onto Direction Island to destroy a British wireless relay station. In charge of the raiding party was Hellmuth von Mücke. On the island he watched his ride, SMS Emden get chased away by HMAS Sydney. The Australian warship proceeded to destroy the German Raider during the Battle of Cocos. 

Left without a ship Mücke and the 53-men under his command seized a derelict, 97-ton, three-masted schooner, the Ayesha that had been abandoned for years on the island. The Germans were able to make it seaworthy and started an epic voyage that took them to Indonesia, Yemen and then across the desert to the safety of the Ottoman Capital. 

The below pictures are von Mücke’s landing party

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The British arrive

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IWM Q 22722 Landing party from the British Light Cruiser SYDNEY approaching Direction Island, 9 am 10th November 1914

IWM Q 22724 -  Landing party from the British Light cruiser SYDNEY on the jetty

[redarmyscreaming]

Hellmuth von Mücke officer aboard the SMS Emden

[thisdayinwwi]

Nov 11 1914 in WWI

The Washington Times. November 11 1914

Infographic of how much the Imperial German Navy SMS Emden sunk compared to the ship itself: 61,683 to 4280 tons

[redarmyscreaming]

Russian cruiser Zhemchug. A veteran of the Russo-Japanese war, she would survive into World War I, when attached with the British Asiatic Fleet in Penang and a few French ships they were set upon in a surprise raid and sunk by the German cruiser SMS Emden on 28 October 1914.