Wuri (ship)
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The Wuri was a boat of the German colonial administration of Cameroon .
history
The Wuri was built in Hamburg in 1906 as a cabin boat in the shape of a cutter . The boat was powered by a Capitaine petrol engine. The Wuri was a sister ship to the Libelle, built in 1902 . The boat was named after the river Wuri in Cameroon, on which it was used. Since it was supposed to sail up the Wuri up to Yabassi , its maximum draft was only 0.5 meters.
In November 1906, the Wuri was transferred to Cameroon by Eleonore Woermann . Since 1907 she served as an inspection boat for the Imperial Governorate of Cameroon.
On September 13, 1914, the Wuri ended in an explosion.
literature
- Erich Gröner : The German warships 1815-1945. Volume 7, Bernard & Graefe, Koblenz 1990, p. 217.
Individual evidence
- ↑ D. Kürchhoff: Motor Boats in Africa. In: Mitteleuropäischer Motorwagen-Verein (Ed.): Automobil-Rundschau. Issue 15, 1907, pp. 351-356.