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Baralong had been about from the scene, and had received a distress call from the ship.
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Baralong sank U-27, which had been preparing to sink a nearby merchant ship.
Oberleutnant zur See Iwan Crompton, after returning to Germany from a prisoner-of-war camp, reported that Baralong had run down the lifeboat he was in ; he leapt clear and was shortly after taken Baralong.
The African police ( of the Baralong tribe ) had wisely stayed out of the way when Eloff's party roared through the Stadt.
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Later, Baralong sank U-41 in an incident which has also been described as a war crime.
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As U-27 came into view from behind Nicosian, Baralong opened fire with her three 12-pounder guns at a range of, firing 34 rounds for only a single shot from the submarine.
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U-27 was lying off Nicosians port quarter and firing into it when Baralong appeared on the scene, flying the ensign of the United States as a false flag.
U-41 was in the process of sinking SS Urbino with gunfire when Baralong arrived on the scene, flying an American flag.
Baralong and ship
On August 19, 1915 Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert RN of the HMS Baralong sank U-27, which was preparing to attack a nearby merchant ship.
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The Baralong Incidents were naval engagements of the First World War in August and September 1915, involving the Royal Navy Q-Ship, later renamed HMS Wyandra, and two German U-boats.
About a dozen of the crewmen managed to escape the sinking submarine, and Lieutenant Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, ordered the surviving sailors to be summarily executed after they boarded the Nicosian.
After the sinking of the RMS Lusitania by a German submarine in May 1915, Lieutenant-Commander Godfrey Herbert, commanding officer of Baralong, was visited by two officers of the Admiralty's Secret Service branch at the naval base at Queenstown, Ireland.
Throughout the summer of 1915, Baralong continued routine patrol duties in the Irish Sea without encountering the enemy.
When she was half a mile away, Baralong ran up a signal flag indicating that she was going to rescue Nicosians crew.
Wegener acknowledged the signal, then ordered his men to cease firing, and took U-27 along the port side of Nicosian to intercept Baralong.
As the submarine disappeared behind the steamship, Herbert steered Baralong on a parallel course along Nicosians starboard side.
Before U-27 came round Nicosians bow, Baralong hauled down the American flag, hoisted the Royal Navy's White Ensign, and unmasked her guns.
Wegener is described by some accounts as being shot while trying to swim to the Baralong.
Moments before Baralong began her attack, the submarine was firing on the freighter.
According to the witness statements, U-27s commander was shot while swimming towards Baralong.
Baralong and her crew were also placed on the Kaiserliche Marines " Black List ": any member of her crew was to be shot on sight if captured.
On 24 September 1915, Baralong sank the U-boat, for which her commanding officer at the time, Lieutenant-Commander A. Wilmot-Smith, was later awarded £ 170 prize bounty.
When U-41 surfaced near Baralong, the latter opened fire while continuing to fly the American flag, and sank the U-boat.
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If he had married her, he'd have been asking for trouble.
They had been seen as soon as they left the ranch, picked out of the darkness by the weary though watchful eyes of two men posted a few hundred yards away in the windless shelter of the trees.
They greeted the news angrily, as though they had been cheated of purpose.
With every leaping stride of the horse beneath him he crossed one more patch of earth that had been his, that he would never see again.
He had been carrying an Enfield rifle and a holstered navy cap-and-ball pistol.
But the luck that had been running their way left him.
His shout had been taken up and repeated.
A sizable supply of powder had been touched off.
The worst part had been the waiting ; ;
The war captain had been badly wounded and was fighting to hold his seat.
And one had been too many.
That afternoon when they had pulled up in front of the broken-down ranch house, his hopes had been high.
The place had been cheap -- just the little he had left after Amelia's burial -- and it would serve its purpose.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
No one was behind it, but in the rear wall of the office I noticed, for the first time, a door which had been left partially open.
He had been worried that with Miller and Rankin added to the escape party they would be short.
He had been one of the original Night Riders, one who had escaped the trial.
He had been the auditor for the mining syndicate, and he had stolen fifty thousand dollars of the syndicate's money.
Then the vein had petered out and the whole project had been abandoned.
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