Wuri (ship)

Wuri

Ship data flag  German Empire Ship type Motor ship Shipyard Maschinenfabrik C. Meissner, Hamburg Whereabouts destroyed by explosion

Ship dimensions and crew length 14.00 m ( Lüa ) width 3.00 m Draft Max. 0.50 m displacement ~ 13 t

Machine system machine engine Machine performance 14 HP (10 kW) Top speed 9 kn (17 km / h) propeller 1

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

1. ↑ D. Kürchhoff: Motor Boats in Africa. In: Mitteleuropäischer Motorwagen-Verein (Ed.): Automobil-Rundschau. Issue 15, 1907, pp. 351-356.