Duel na doppelgangers
Cap Trafalgar ya bar Montevideo a ranar 22 ga Agusta, 1914, kan tafiya mai zaman kansa. Zane daga Willego Stöver. Tarin Hotuna na Andrzej Danilevich
Jirgin fasinja Cap Trafalgar wani sabon tururi ne wanda aka ƙaddamar a cikin 1913. A kan tafiya ta farko, ta bar Hamburg a ranar 10 ga Maris, 1914, ta nufi tashar jiragen ruwa na Kudancin Amirka. Sai dai kuma mashigar tekun Atlantika ta biyu da ta fara a watan Yuli, cikin sauri ta kawo karshen ayyukanta cikin lumana sakamakon barkewar yaki.
Bayan isa Buenos Aires a ranar 2 ga Agusta, yawancin fasinjojin jirgin sun sauka a Cape Trafalgar (18 BRT, mai jirgin ruwa Hamburg Südamerikanische Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft daga Hamburg).
ana shirin dawowa. Ton 3500 na kwal ne kawai aka hako, amma kyaftin din jirgin Fritz Langerhans ya kirga kan mai a Montevideo, inda jirgin ya yi niyyar shiga. Sai dai labarin barkewar yaki tsakanin Jamus, Birtaniya da Faransa ya isa jirgin a Buenos Aires, don haka Cape Trafalgar ta ci gaba da zama a tashar jiragen ruwa, kuma a ranar 16 ga watan Agusta, hafsan sojojin ruwa na ofishin jakadancin Jamus a Argentina ya bayyana a cikin jirgin tare da oda. don buƙatar jirgin da sojojin ruwa don amfani da shi don ayyukan sirri.
Kashegari, jirgin ruwan ya bar Buenos Aires kuma bayan kwanaki 2 ya shiga Montevideo, inda aka sallami sauran fasinjoji 60 da ma'aikatan jirgin da ba su dace da aikin soja ba. A can ne suka cika man fetur kuma suka kwaso jami'an ajiyar ruwa 3096 daga jirgin ruwan Jamus Camarones (2 GRT) daga tashar jiragen ruwa. Akwai fasinja daya a cikin jirgin Cap Trafalgar wanda ba ya so ya bar jirgin - wani Braunholtz ne, wanda likitan dabbobi ne, kuma yana dauke da ... kamar wata aladu kiwo. Sa'an nan Langerhans ya yanke shawarar ... don daukar wannan "magungunan" a cikin ma'aikatan jirgin - ko da yake akwai likitan jirgin a cikin jirgin.
Jirgin Trafalgar ya bar Montevideo da tsakar rana a ranar 22 ga Agusta, bisa hukuma ya kama hanyarsa zuwa Las Palmas a cikin tsibirin Canary na Spain, kuma a haƙiƙanin tsibirin Kudancin Trinidad na Brazil da ba mazauna ba, kimanin mil 500 na ruwa daga gabar tekun Brazil. A lokacin tafiyar, jirgin ya yi kama da wani injin turbin na Carmania na Burtaniya (19 GRT) wanda Jamusawa suka san yana cikin yankin. Don yin wannan, sun cire bututun hayaki na uku, wanda ya kasance dummy (yana ajiye bututun shaye-shaye ne kawai da na’urar sarrafa injin turbin da ke tafiyar da dunƙule ta tsakiya), suka fentin naúrar daidai. An bayar da rahoton cewa zabi na "Carmania" da aka yi la'akari da cewa Braunholz ya tashi a kan shi kafin yakin da kuma a kan shi ya dauki bangare a cikin Oktoba ceton mutane daga kona British fasinja steamer "Volturno" (524 BRT). a cikin Oktoba 1913 kuma yana da kwafin jarida tare da labarin kan batun tare da shi. taken da hotuna na Carmania…. Da tsakar dare tsakanin 3602-28 ga Agusta, Cap Trafalgar ya isa gabar Kudancin Trinidad kuma da safe ya hadu da jirgin ruwan Jamus Eber a can. A baya dai an ajiye wannan tsohon jirgin ne a yammacin Afirka ta Jamus, inda tare da jirgin ruwa mai saukar ungulu Steiermark (29 GRT), ya isa tsibirin a ranar 4570 ga watan Agusta don mika makamansa zuwa Cape Trafalgar. Sauran masu samar da kayayyaki sun riga sun jira a can - Pontos na Jamus (15 GRT), Santa Isabel (5703 GRT) da Eleonore Woermann (5199 GRT) da kuma jirgin ruwa na Amurka Berwind (4624 GRT). A wannan rana, jirgin ruwa na Jamus Dresden ya isa can, wanda, bayan da ya dauki nauyin kwal daga masu ba da kaya, ya tafi tare da Santa Isabel.
Tarin Hotuna na Andrzej Danylevich
