H.M.S. FIFI
HUN VESSEL WHICH BECAME A BRITISH FIGHTING SHIP. Commander Geoffrey Basil Spicer Sinison, D.5.0., R.N., and the officers and crews of the motor-launches Minii and Touton were claimants recently in a. prize bounty application arising out of actions on Lake Tanganyika, East Africa. Commander Simson said he was in command of the British Naval Expeditionary Forco on tho lake. The force consisted of twenty-eight persons in two large motor-launches and a small supply motor-boat carrying petrol. On December 26, 1915, off M'Gubwa, they came up with the German armed vessel Kingari, and after a short engagement captured the Kingari, and it was afterwards added to the commander's flotilla as R.M.S. Fill. On February 9, 1916, tho flotilla attacked another armed German vessel, Hedwig von Wissman, which carried three guns. After an hour's fight the German vessel sank, and twenty-one of hur crew, including her commander, were tiii>p-' prisoner, I hi' remainder being killed. The President of the Prize Court, Sir Samuel Evans, declared that the applicants were entitled to a prize bountv of JJ2IS.
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Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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176H.M.S. FIFI Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3091, 23 May 1917, Page 5
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