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Extremely rare World War I Large original Photograph of the of…
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Sydney
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23-Apr-2010
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Extremely rare World War I Large original Photograph of the of the S.M.S Emden crew sitting on the propeller of the Emden. Sailors all wearing Sms Emden tally bands on their caps. An extremely rare photograph. Comes in original frame (Frame loose)., Emden was a cruiser that, at the start of the First World War, formed part of the German East Asiatic Squadron. She was detached to stalk the shipping routes across the Indian Ocean and quickly became the scourge of the Allied navies. Between August and October 1914, Emden captured or sank 21 vessels. In November 1914, nine Allied vessels were involved in the hunt for Emden, and the threat she posed led to a particularly heavy escort of four warships being allocated to the first Australian and New Zealand troop convoy. Surprised by one of these escorts, HMAS Sydney, while in the process of destroying the British radio station on the Cocos (Keeling) Islands, Emden was destroyed on 9 November 1914
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