The Rabaul was a motorboat owned by the governorate of the German New Guinea colony .
history
The Rabaul was built by Ulderup & Schlueter in Hong Kong in 1913 for the national fishery of the German New Guinea protected area. Originally the motorboat was called Papua , but it was put into service in 1914 as Rabaul , named after the capital of German New Guinea - Rabaul . The boat served as a station boat for the German officials in Rabaul.
The whereabouts of the Rabaul is unknown.
literature
Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945 Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, pages 223-224
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