THE FLEET THAT STEAMED THROUGH A JUNGLE

From: Sea Classics | Date: April 1, 2008| Author: Schnepf, Ed | Copyright information

In one of most incredible episodes of World War One, 28 English sailors braved teeming African heat and enemy ambush to carry two small gunboats on their backs to halt Germany's Naval domination of strategically vital Lake Tanganyika

It was well past dawn when the familiar stench of the South African jungle coastline brought Kapitan Hans Kreuger to the bridge. Viewing the haze-shrouded shore gloomy in the sun's iridescence, he hurriedly checked the gunboat Kingkani's heading; lifted th...

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