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Baralong in Bucknall Lines colours
History
Name
1901: Baralong
1915: HMS Baralong
1915: HMS Wyandra
1916: Manica
1922: Kyokuto Maru
1925: Shinsei Maru No. 1
Namesake
1901: Borolong
1915: Wyandra
1916: Manica
Owner
1901: Bucknall Steamship Lines Ltd
1914: Ellerman & Bucknall SS Co Ltd
1922: Kyokuto Koshi Goshi Kaisha
1925: Hara Shoji KK
1926: Shinsei Kisen Goshi Kaisha
Operator
1901: Bucknall Brothers
1914: Admiralty
1915: Royal Navy
1916: Ellerman & Bucknall SS Co Ltd
Port of registry
1901: London
1915:
1922: Dairen
Builder
Armstrong, Whitworth & Co Ltd, Low Walker
Yard number
711
Launched
12 September 1901
Completed
November 1901
Commissioned
into Royal Navy, March 1915
Decommissioned
out of Royal Navy, October 1916
Identification
UK official number 114788
1901: code letters SWMN
by 1930: code letters QBPJ
Fate
Scrapped 1933
General characteristics
Type
Cargo ship
Tonnage
1914: 4,192 GRT, 2,661 NRT
1930: 4,354 GRT, 2,711 NRT
Length
360.0 ft (109.7 m)
Beam
47.0 ft (14.3 m)
Depth
28.3 ft (8.6 m)
Decks
2
Installed power
535 NHP
Propulsion
triple expansion engine
Speed
12 knots (22 km/h)
Armament
(as Q-ship):
3 × 12-pounder naval guns
Notes
sister ships: Manica, Barotse, Bantu
HMS Baralong was a cargo steamship that was built in England in 1901, served in the Royal Navy as a Q-ship in the First World War, was sold into Japanese civilian service in 1922 and scrapped in 1933. She was renamed HMS Wyandra in 1915, Manica in 1916, Kyokuto Maru in 1922 and Shinsei Maru No. 1 in 1925.
As a Q-ship, Baralong was both successful and controversial. In 1915 she sank two U-boats: U-27 in August and U-41 in September, in two engagements that are known as the Baralong incidents. The circumstances of the sinkings led Germany to describe both incidents as war crimes.
HMSBaralong was a cargo steamship that was built in England in 1901, served in the Royal Navy as a Q-ship in the First World War, was sold into Japanese...
The Baralong incidents were two incidents during the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-ship HMSBaralong and two...
September 1915 HMSBaralong also sank U-41, which was in the process of sinking the cargo ship Urbino. According to the two German survivors, Baralong continued...
submarine U-27 was sunk by the British Q-ship HMSBaralong. All German survivors were summarily executed by Baralong's crew on the orders of Lieutenant Godfrey...
Water during the Falklands War. British destroyer HMS Coventry and British frigates HMS Ardent and HMS Antelope are all sunk by bombs from Argentine light...
was sometimes referred to as 'Baralong Herbert', in reference to accusations of war crimes subsequent to the Baralong incidents, during World War I....
the Japanese ferry Kinjo Maru kills 160 people after the British ship HMSBaralong collides with it in the Sea of Japan. August 23 – A. Roy Knabenshue introduces...
lifeboats, was sunk by the British Q-ship HMSBaralong. Afterwards, Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert ordered his Baralong crew to kill the survivors of the German...
Dardanelles, evacuation, destruction of SMS Königsberg; SS Arabic and HMSBaralong (Baralong incidents), Irish Easter Rising, air raid on Schleswig air base...
and sunk by U-101 in 1940. Baralong 1901 1901–1915 1916–1922 Requisitioned as a Q-ship in WW1 as HMSBaralong. Renamed HMS Wyandra. Returned 1916 and...
merchant cruiser sunk by a ship of the same class; she was destroyed by HMS Carmania, also a converted ocean liner, in a furious action in the South...
of 47 lives. Baralong incidents — German submarine SM U-27 was shelled and sunk in the Western Approaches by Royal Navy ship HMSBaralong with the loss...
the Japanese ferry Kinjo Maru killed 160 people after the British ship HMSBaralong collided with it in the Sea of Japan off of the coast of Shimishima....
single-ship action fought in August 1914 during the First World War, when HMS Highflyer attacked the German SS Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse off Río de Oro...
incident Laconia Order List by death toll of ships sunk by submarines Baralong incidents Karl Dönitz 9 January 1917 German Crown Council meeting Mallison...
to be careful while under operations, as the pre-dreadnought battleship HMS Britannia, designated to scout for the Brazilian flotilla, had recently been...
shelled and sunk in the Western Approaches 50°43′N 7°22′W / 50.717°N 7.367°W / 50.717; -7.367 by HMSBaralong ( Royal Navy) with the loss of all 37 crew....
Garry of both violating the Hague Convention of 1907 and repeating the Baralong incidents by opening fire on the unarmed survivors of UB-110 with revolvers...
& Co Ltd at Low Walker on the River Tyne launched Bantu on 16 July and Baralong on 12 September. All four ships were named after peoples or places in southern...
battlecruisers HMS Invincible and Inflexible, the armoured cruisers HMS Carnarvon, Cornwall and Kent, the armed merchant cruiser HMS Macedonia and the...
battles in the Mediterranean theater. The first was when USS Lydonia and HMS Basilisk sank a U-boat off Algiers on May 8, 1918. Lydonia and Basilisk were...
Lusitania appeared heavily in propaganda, and helped motivate the later Baralong incidents. According to Kurt Hahn, the sinking was a decisive turning point...
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