Westerhope Wargame Group Battle Of Lake Tanganyika

Westerhope Wargame Group Battle Of Lake Tanganyika 9 february 1916, h.m.s. mimi turns to avoid the shells of the hedwig von wissmann. the splooshes are 3d printed. the file is designed to produce 3cm tall markers especially for cruel seas. i simply scaled them up to various sizes in the slicer software so they look right next to my 28mm models. the printed items undercoated white. The battle for lake tanganyika was a series of naval engagements that took place between elements of the royal navy, force publique and the kaiserliche marine between december 1915 and july 1916, during the first world war. the intention was to secure control of the strategically important lake tanganyika, which had been dominated by german.

Westerhope Wargame Group Battle Of Lake Tanganyika A big game hunter and boer war veteran john lee advised jackson that he knew of a way to get boats to lake tanganyika. the sms graf von goetzen had been built in germany, disassembled, packed into over 5,000 crates, and shipped to dar es salaam in africa. from there, it was transported overland to a shipyard on the lake, where it was reassembled. It was a production of the albertine rift, western part of the east african rift. this was the second oldest freshwater lake in the world, and the second largest by volume, plus second deepest, and the scene of probably the strangest naval battle of ww1, preceded by an epic british expedition from south africa and through congo. The battle for lake tanganyika was a series of naval engagements during the first world war between the naval elements of germany, britain and belgium between the end of 1915 and the beginning of 1916, for control of the lake. germany’s most valuable colony in africa, german east africa, was surrounded by british, belgian and portuguese. Background of the battle for lake tanganyika strategic situation. lake tanganyika is located between the belgian congo to the west and german east africa to the east. at the outset of the battle for lake tanganyika, the germans possessed two warships on lake tanganyika: the 60 tonne hedwig von wissmann (66 short tons; 59 long tons) and the 45 tonne kingani (50 short tons;44 long tons).