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Cap Trafalgar was a German luxury passenger liner built by
A.G Vulkan and launched July 1913.
She did
not get a long career. At the outbreak of world war one
she laid at anchor in Buenos Aires, and was soon refitted
as an armed merchantman. 14.September 1914 she got engaged
in battle with a similar ship from England, the RMS
Carmenia outside Trinidade Brasil. The battle lasted for
70 minutes before Cap Trafalgar saunk in the deep
northeast of Enseada Dos Portugueses. The wreck has
not been found.
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Cap Trafalgar
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186,8 x 21,9 x 13,3 f
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18710 grt
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Hamburg ( D ) 1913
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