The Rowuma was a ship of the governorate of the German East Africa colony and thus belonged to the flotilla of the protected area.
history
The Rowuma was built in Kiel in 1894 for use in the German East Africa colony . The sea-going steamer was stationed in the port of Dar es Salaam and was used, among other things, as a customs cruiser. The ship was named after the Rowuma River in German East Africa. The Rowuma was armed with two 3.7 cm ring cannons . In 1907/08 it was lengthened by 6 m by installing a middle section. This increased the ship's dimensions from 28.62 m to 34.62 m in length, from 115 to 144 GRT and from 200 t to around 250 t of ship weight.
After the outbreak of World War I in August 1914, Rowuma was assigned to the Delta Department on September 26, 1914 . The ship supported the security and supply of the small cruiser Königsberg lying in the Rufidji estuary . On October 9, 1915, the Rowuma sank itself in the Rufidji estuary.
literature
Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, p. 220 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.
^ Albert Röhr: German marine chronicle. Verlag Gerhard Stalling, Oldenburg / Hamburg 1974, ISBN 3-7979-1845-3 , p. 196.
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