Max (ship, 1884)
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The Max was a German steamship that was used in the colony of German East Africa .
history
The Max was built in 1884. On March 20, 1889, the ship was bought by the imperial government for the fight against the Arab uprising in East Africa. On June 22, 1889, the ship reached Zanzibar for use in the Wissmann fleet.
The Wissmann fleet, named after the Reich Commissioner Hermann von Wissmann , who was responsible for suppressing the uprising, was responsible for landing and supplying the German troops on the East African coast, while the Imperial Navy provided the blockade squadron, which together with British and Italian warships secured the East African coast against the smuggling of slaves of the Arabs from Africa and against the importation of weapons into East Africa for the troops of the Arabs. The tasks of the Wissmann fleet and the blockade squadron, however, mixed in the course of the uprising.
In January 1891 the Max was handed over to the Gouvernement of German East Africa and became part of the protected area flotilla . The ship served, among other things, as a customs cruiser and was armed with a rapid fire gun for this purpose . In 1906 it was scrapped. Nothing is known about his whereabouts.
literature
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, p. 219.
Individual evidence
- ^ Gustav Adolf Fischer: Flottillen, in: Heinrich Schnee (Hrsg.): German Colonial Lexicon . Volume I, Quelle & Meyer, Leipzig 1920, p. 644 f.
- ^ Wilhelm Hain: Wandering in South and East Africa 1896–1898, in: Ulrich van der Heyden (Ed.): Colonial everyday life in German East Africa in documents. Volume 18 of the series Cognoscere Historias, trafo Wissenschaftsverlag, Berlin 2009, ISBN 978-3-89626-844-0 , p. 119.