Duel ye doppelgangers
Cap Trafalgar inosiya Montevideo muna Nyamavhuvhu 22, 1914, parwendo rwega. Kupenda naWillego Stöwer. Mufananidzo Kuunganidzwa kweAndrzej Danilevich
Iyo inotakura steamer Cap Trafalgar yaive nyowani nyowani yakatangwa muna 1913. Parwendo rwake rwokutanga, akabva Hamburg musi wa10 March 1914, achienda kuzviteshi zveSouth America. Zvisinei, kuyambuka kwechipiri kweAtlantiki, kwakatanga muna Chikunguru, kwakakurumidza kupera kushanda kwayo murunyararo nekuda kwekutanga kwehondo.
Mushure mekusvika muBuenos Aires musi wa 2 Nyamavhuvhu, vazhinji vevatakuri vechikepe vakaburuka paCape Trafalgar (18 BRT, muridzi wechikepe Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft kubva kuHamburg).
kugadzirira rwendo rwokudzokera. Matani 3500 chete emarasha akacherwa, asi kaputeni wechikepe Fritz Langerhans akaverenga nezvekuwedzera mafuta muMontevideo, uko ngarava yaida kupinda. Zvisinei, nhau dzokutanga kwehondo pakati peGermany, Great Britain neFrance dzakasvika mungarava muBuenos Aires, naizvozvo Cape Trafalgar yakaramba iri pachiteshi chengarava, uye pana August 16 mufambisi wengarava weEmbassy yeGermany muArgentina akaoneka mungarava achirayira kuti kukumbira ngarava neveuto kuti vashandise mabasa ega.
Zuva rakatevera, chikepe chegungwa chakabva kuBuenos Aires uye mazuva maviri gare gare akapinda muMontevideo, uko vakasara makumi matanhatu nevafambisi vasina kukodzera kuhondo vakaregedzwa. Ikoko vakawedzera mafuta ndokunonga vakuru vakuru vengarava 2 60 kubva mungarava yeGermany inotakura zvinhu Camarones (3096 GRT) kubva pachiteshi. Paiva nemumwe mutakurwi muCap Trafalgar uyo akanga asingadi kusiya ngarava - akanga ari mumwe Braunholtz, aiva chiremba wemhuka, uye akanga akatakura ... nguruve mbiri dzinoberekesa. Ipapo Langerhans akasarudza ... kutora uyu "mushonga" muvashandi - kunyangwe pakanga paine chiremba wengarava muchikepe.
Iyo Cap Trafalgar yakabva yabva kuMontevideo masikati musi waNyamavhuvhu 22, ichienda zviri pamutemo kuLas Palmas muSpanish Canary Islands, uye kutaura zvazviri kuchitsuwa chisingagarwi cheBrazil cheSouth Trinidad, makiromita angangoita 500 kubva kumahombekombe eBrazil. Munguva yerwendo, chikepe chakange chave chakavanzika seBritish Carmania passenger turbine (19 GRT) iyo maGerman aiziva kuti yaive munzvimbo iyi. Kuti vaite izvi, vakabvisa chimuni chechitatu, icho chaive dummy (yaingogara pombi dzekupedza simba uye condenser yeturbine inotyaira screw yepakati), ndokupenda iyo unit zvinoenderana. Zvinonzi kusarudzwa kwe "Carmania" kwakaitwa tichifunga nezvekuti Braunholz akafamba nechikepe pamberi pehondo uye pamusoro payo akatora chikamu mukununurwa kwaOctober kwevanhu kubva pakutsva kweBritish mufambisi we "Volturno" (524 BRT) muna Gumiguru 1913 uye aive nekopi bepanhau rine chinyorwa chaitaura nezvenyaya iyi naye.theme nemapikicha eCarmania…. Pakati pehusiku paAugust 3602-28, Cap Trafalgar yakasvika kumhenderekedzo yeSouth Trinidad uye mangwanani akasangana neGermany pfuti Eber ikoko. Chikepe chekare ichi chakambomiswa muGerman West Africa, kubva uko, pamwe chete nechikepe chinotakura zvinhu chinonzi Steiermark (29 GRT), chakasvika pachitsuwa musi waNyamavhuvhu 4570 kuendesa zvombo zvaro kuCape Trafalgar. Vamwe vatengesi vakanga vakatomirira ipapo - zvipfunga zveGermany zvePontos (15 GRT), Santa Isabel (5703 GRT) naEleonore Woermann (5199 GRT) uye chidhinha cheAmerica chakahaiwa Berwind (4624 GRT). Pazuva rimwe chetero, German light cruiser Dresden yakasvika ikoko, iyo, yakatora mutoro wemarasha kubva kune vatengesi, yakasiya neSanta Isabel.
Mufananidzo Kuunganidzwa kwaAndrzej Danylevich
