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    SMS Cormoran or SMS Cormoran II was a German armed merchant raider that was originally a German-built Russian merchant vessel named Ryazan. The ship was...
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    SMS Cormoran ("His Majesty's Ship Cormorant") was an unprotected cruiser of the Bussard class, the fifth member of a class of six ships. She was built...
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    encounter with Germans in the Pacific during World War I. On 7 April 1917, SMS Cormoran was scuttled in Apra Harbor, Guam to prevent her capture by the auxiliary...
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    trans-Pacific China Clipper route.: 15  On December 10, 1914, the SMS Cormoran (or SMS Cormoran II), a German armed merchant raider, was forced to seek port at...
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    at Hong Kong for an engine refit. The shallow draft small cruiser SMS Cormoran, operating independent of the cruiser division, was patrolling the Yangtze...
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  • Coordinates Aratama Maru  Imperial Japanese Navy 1944 An Imperial Japanese Navy transport sunk in Talofofo Bay. SMS Cormoran  Imperial German Navy 7 April 1917...
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  • SMS Scharnhorst (Flagship) SMS Gneisenau SMS Emden SMS Leipzig SMS Nürnberg SMS Cormoran SMS Prinz Eitel Friedrich SMS S90 SMS Iltis SMS Jaguar SMS Tiger SMS Luchs...
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    Siege of Tsingtao (category World War I crimes by Imperial Japan)
    cruiser Cormoran; the auxiliary cruiser Cormoran, which was the former captured Russian steamer Ryazan manned with the crew of cruiser Cormoran; four small...
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    prisoners of war (POWs). In December 1914 the German gunboat Cormoran, pursued by the Imperial Japanese Navy, tried to take on provisions and refuel in Guam...
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    Guam. Aratama Maru  Imperial Japanese Navy 1944 An Imperial Japanese Navy transport sunk in Talofofo Bay. SMS Cormoran  Imperial German Navy 7 April 1917...
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  • 118.167°E / 24.500; 118.167 (Japanese destroyer Amatsukaze) SMS Cormoran  Imperial German Navy 28 September 1914 A Bussard-class cruiser that was scuttled...
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  • 10.5 cm guns) SMS Bussard, 1890 SMS Falke, 1891 SMS Seeadler, 1892 SMS Cormoran, 1892 SMS Condor, 1892 SMS Geier, 1894 Gefion class (3,700 tons, 10 x 10...
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    East Asia Squadron (category Military units and formations of the Imperial German Navy)
    SMS Kaiser, the light cruiser SMS Prinzess Wilhelm and the small cruiser SMS Cormoran were sent. But without a base, Hoffmann depended on the British at Hong...
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  • Earlier, on 6 and 9 May, respectively, the German ships Irene and the Cormoran arrived in the bay with a separate instruction from the German government...
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    Adalbert Zuckschwerdt (category Imperial German Navy personnel of World War I)
    – 1 July 1945) was captain (Korvettenkapitän) of the German raider SMS Cormoran, which sailed from the German Colony of Qingdao, China, until she was finally...
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  • africanus (cormoran africain) (A) Pygmy cormorant, Microcarbo pygmeus (cormoran pygmée) (A) Great cormorant, Phalacrocorax carbo (grand Cormoran) European...
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    captured a Russian steamer and converted her into the commerce raider Cormoran. Emden rejoined the East Asia Squadron, then was detached for independent...
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    Ryazan, earmarked by the Imperial Russian navy as an auxiliary and sent her to Tsingtau for conversion and renamed Cormoran. Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse...
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    equipment. However after World War I salvage operations on the scuttled SMS Cormoran led to recovered Mauser rifles being issued to the militia before they...
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    December 1910. Governor Albert Hahl at Rabaul dispatched the small cruiser Cormoran and the survey ship Planet with 163 newly hired Melanesian police recruits...
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    August. At Qingdao with Kaiserin Elisabeth were the Imperial German Navy light cruiser Cormoran, gunboats Iltis, Jaguar, Tiger and Luchs and the torpedo...
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    on 27 July, and he sent the corvette Arcona and the unprotected cruiser Cormoran to the accident site. The ships recovered twenty-seven bodies and buried...
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    including the steamer Ryazan, which was converted into the auxiliary cruiser Cormoran. In September 1914, Emden raided Penang and caught the Russian protected...
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  • launched 1848 Condor: cruiser, launched 1892 Cormoran: light cruiser, launched 1892, scuttled 1914 Cormoran: auxiliary cruiser, scuttled 1917 Coronel: 11...
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  • liner in service 1909–14 that was captured by Imperial Germany and refitted as merchant raider SMS Cormoran (1909) before being scuttled in 1916 at Guam...
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  • Warships Sunk in World War 1 1914". World War I. Retrieved 21 February 2013. "Imperial Japanese Navy". Naval History. Retrieved 21 February 2013. "Alaska Shipwrecks...
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    the remaining seven ships, only Cormoran and Geier remained abroad at the start of World War I in August 1914. Cormoran was stationed in Qingdao, but her...
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  • November 2012. "Dunchess of Cornwall". Uboat.net. Retrieved 1 December 2012. "Imperial Transport". Uboat.net. Retrieved 5 December 2012. "Miss Morris". Uboat...
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    Harbor Aratama Maru, a WWII Japanese military transport in Talofofo Bay SMS Cormoran (1909), WWI German merchant raider in Apra Harbor Kitsugawa Maru, a WWII...
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    Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The class comprised six ships: Bussard, the lead ship, Falke, Seeadler, Cormoran, Condor, and...
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