Bombardment of Fanning
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The Fanning Raid was an action of the First World War. The British
All Red Line
cable station on Fanning Island was raided by Germany's
SMS Nürnberg
and SMS Titania. A German landing party was sent ashore, to cut the communications cable.
United Kingdom
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All Red Line
All Red Line
The All Red Line was an informal name for the system of electrical telegraphs that linked much of the British Empire.It was inaugurated on 31 October 1902. It had this name because on many political maps, British Empire territory was coloured red ....
cable station on Fanning Island was raided by Germany's
German Empire
The German Empire refers to Germany during the "Second Reich" period from the unification of Germany and proclamation of Wilhelm I as German Emperor on 18 January 1871, to 1918, when it became a federal republic after defeat in World War I and the abdication of the Emperor, Wilhelm II.The German...
SMS Nürnberg
SMS Nürnberg (1906)
SMS Nürnberg, named after the Bavarian city of Nuremberg, was a Königsberg class light cruiser of 3,450 tons laid down in 1905 and launched in 1907. Nürnberg's was similar in both size and appearance to the famous , differing mainly in its uneven funnel spacing. She was armed with ten guns, eight...
and SMS Titania. A German landing party was sent ashore, to cut the communications cable.