The Ramu was built in Hamburg in 1899. The boat was named after the Ramu River in what was then the German part of the island of New Guinea .
The steam-powered launch belonged to the governorate of the Kaiser-Wilhelms-Land district of the German New Guinea colony and was used by government officials to tour the coast and rivers of the German territory of New Guinea. The Ramu was initially stationed at Herbsthöhe and was relocated to Friedrich-Wilhelmshafen before 1907 , where it was at least until 1913. Her further fate is not known.
literature
Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung, Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Koblenz 1990, p. 223.
Individual evidence
^ Reichstag (ed.): Stenographic reports on the negotiations of the Reichstag. 11th legislative period - II. Session, first session section 1905/1906, fifth annex volume, file 335 (income and expenditure of the German protected areas), Berlin 1906, p. 3645 ( online ).
^ Rudolf Fitzner (ed.): German Colonial Handbook. 13th edition, Hermann Paetel, Berlin 1913, p. 27 ( online ).
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