The Rufiji was a ship of the governorate of the German East Africa colony and thus belonged to the flotilla of the protected area.
history
The Rufiji was manufactured in Kiel in 1894 for use in the German East Africa colony . The ship was named after the Rufiji River in German East Africa. Among other things, it served as a customs cruiser and was armed with a rapid fire gun for this purpose . The Rufiji was the Rowuma's sister ship . In 1910 the Rufiji was converted into a water prahm .
During the First World War , the Rufiji sank in the Rufiji estuary on October 9, 1915 when a British warship approached.
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.
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