Nusa (ship, 1914)
 HMAS Nusa together with the attacked German government yacht Komet
(date and location unknown, probably Kometafen, end of 1914) |
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The Nusa was a German steam yacht in the service of the Imperial Gouvernement of German New Guinea . In 1914 she became Australian spoils of war and put into service as HMAS Nusa . The final fate is unknown.
history
The Nusa was put into service in 1914 before the outbreak of the First World War and served as a station steamer for the Landesfiscus Deutsch-New Guinea in Rabaul . The ship was managed by Norddeutscher Lloyd . As a station steamer, the Nusa carried the so-called imperial colonial flag of the Imperial Colonial Office . On September 13, 1914, the yacht was confiscated by the Australian Naval and Military Expeditionary Force (AN & MEF) and the Royal Australian Navy and put into service as HMSA Nusa .
On October 9, 1914, the Nusa was involved in the landing of the German government yacht Komet in Komethafen . It then served the Australian occupation and administrative authorities until the Second World War . Her final fate is unknown.
literature
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945 . Volume 7: Landing units (II), landing vehicles i (m). e (actual). Sense). (Part 2), landing ferries, landing support vehicles, transporters; Ships and boats of the army, ships and boats of the sea pilots / air force, colonial vehicles, Koblenz 1990, p. 223f. ISBN 3-7637-4807-5
Web links
- Data on HMAS Nusa and a photo of the yacht at pacificwrecks.com
- HMAS Nusa together with the Komet in Komethafen, probably October 1914
Individual evidence
- ^ Arnold Kludas : Die Seeschiffe des Norddeutscher Lloyd 1920-1970 , Köhlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford 1992, ISBN 3-7822-0534-0 , p. 164