SMS Königsberg lies on the riverbed, scuttled following the fight with two British monitors. The ships guns were salvaged, and saw combat on land after words.
SMS Königsberg in the Rufiji River,
German East Africa (now Tanzania). She had been scuttled after a fight with two Royal Navy river monitors
on 11 July, 1915.
SMS Konigsberg. After a brief career at the beginning of The Great War, needing repair for her engines,
Konigsberg went up the Rufiji River but was hunted down by the British
monitors Mersey and Severn. She then suffered enough damage in the
fighting of July 11th, 1915 that the crew scuttled the warship but not
before removing her primary guns. Her guns saw service until the end of the war.
