Vittoriosa, Bastion San Salvatore, sailors of SMS Emden

San Salvator was a POW camp for German soldiers and sailors from 1915 to 1920.

SMS Emden was a Dresden class light cruisers built in Danzig in 1906. Emden spent the majority of her career overseas in the East Asia Squadron, based in Qingdao, China. After the outbreak of World War I, Emden captured a Russian steamer and converted her into the commerce raider Cormoran. It was then detached for independent raiding in the Indian Ocean. The cruiser spent nearly two months operating in the region, and captured nearly two dozen ships. On 28 October 1914, Emden launched a surprise attack on Penang; in the resulting Battle of Penang, she sank the Russian cruiser Zhemchug and the French destroyer Mousquet.

Captain Karl von Müller then took Emden to raid the Cocos Islands, where he landed a contingent of sailors to destroy British facilities. There, Emden was attacked by the Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney on 9 November 1914. The more powerful Australian ship quickly inflicted serious damage and forced Müller to run his ship aground to avoid sinking. Out of a crew of 376, 133 were killed in the battle. Most of the survivors were taken prisoner and then brought to Malta and Australia.

The landing party however, led by Hellmuth von Mücke, escaped and made it to the Ottoman Empire.

The image here originates is part of an estate of a German survivor who was wounded, treated in Sri Lanka and then brought for a few years to Australia as POW.

Source (mostly): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Emden

Taken on: May 7, 2021

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