SMS Cap Trafalgar
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Cap
Trafalgar was a German luxury passenger liner laid
down by A.G Vulkan in Hamburg, and was launched July
1913. At
the outbreak of world war one she laid at anchor in Buenos
Aires. She was requisitioned by the German navy, and
refitted as an armed merchantman and auxiliary cruiser. Outside
Trinidade Brasil she got in a battle with a
similar ship from England, the RMS Carmenia 14.September
1914. The engagement lasted for seventy minutes before Cap
Trafalgar sank in the deep northeast of Enseada Dos
Portugueses. Carmenia was barely afloat and heavily
damaged, but after getting assistance she managed to limp
back to Pernambuco. The wreck of Cap Trafalgar has not yet
been found.
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| 20°29'00.0"S 29°18'00.0"W ( Official position of sinking ) Last updated: June 2014 |
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