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SMS Hedwig Von Wissmann
''Hedwig von Wissmann'' was a German steamboat on Lake Tanganyika, which became a feature in the story behind the film ''The African Queen''. She was sister vessel to the larger on Lake Nyasa, and like that vessel originally used as a gunboat against slavers. The ship was named for Hedwig von Wissmann, the wife of the German explorer and colonial administrator Hermann von Wissmann Hermann von Wissmann may refer to: * Hermann Wissmann Hermann Wilhelm Leopold Ludwig Wissmann, after 1890 Hermann von Wissmann (4 September 1853 – 15 June 1905), was a German explorer and administrator in Africa. Biography Born in Frankfurt ... who had raised funds for both boats. On 12 August 1914 the vessel was drafted for guard service on Lake Tanganyika. She was sunk by an Anglo-Belgian flotilla of small boats under Geoffrey Spicer-Simson on 9 February 1916 at 11h50 in the Battle for Lake Tanganyika including and . German casualties were an engineer and two African stokers killed in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Riss Hedwig Von Wissmann
Riss or RISS may refer to: __NOTOC__ People * Riss (cartoonist), French cartoonist, author and publisher Laurent Sourisseau (born 1966), majority owner of the satirical newspaper ''Charlie Hebdo'' * Dan Riss (1910–1970), American actor * Erik Riss (born 1995), German speedway and grasstrack rider, son of Gerd and brother of Mark Riss * Gerd Riss (born 1965), German former motorcycle speedway rider, father of Erik and Mark Riss * Hermine Riss (1903–1980), Austrian honored as Righteous among the Nations for saving Jews from the Holocaust * Juan Carlos Riss (born 1955), Bolivian politician and economist * Mark Riss (born 1994), German speedway racer, son of Gerd and brother of Erik Riss * Iris or Riss Long, founder and member of The Lana Sisters British vocal group (1958–1961) Places * Riss (river), Germany * Riss Lake, Missouri, United States, a reservoir RISS * Regional Information Sharing Systems, an American information-sharing program for law enforcement See also * Ri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Geoffrey Spicer-Simson
Commander (Royal Navy), Commander Geoffrey Basil Spicer-Simson Distinguished Service Order, DSO (15 January 1876 – 29 January 1947) was a Royal Navy officer. He served in the Mediterranean, Pacific and Home Fleets. He is most famous for his role as leader of a naval expedition to Lake Tanganyika in 1915, where he commanded a small flotilla which defeated a superior German Empire, German force during the Battle for Lake Tanganyika. Early life Geoffrey Basil Spicer Simson was born in Hobart, Tasmania, on 15 January 1876, one of five children. His father, Frederick Simson, had been in the merchant navy and was a dealer in gold sovereigns in British Raj, India who eventually settled in Le Havre, French Third Republic, France, at the age of thirty-one. There he met eighteen-year-old Dora Spicer, daughter of a visiting English clergyman, William Webb Spicer, and on marrying changed his name to Spicer-Simson. In 1874 the Spicer-Simsons moved to Tasmania where they started a family and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
