Bombardment of Madras
| Bombardment of Madras | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part of the Asian and Pacific theatre of World War I | |||||||
 Oil tanks on fire in the harbour following the bombardment of Madras by SMS Emden | |||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||
 India |
 Germany | ||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||
| unknown |
 Karl von Müller | ||||||
| Strength | |||||||
| unknown | Light cruiser Emden | ||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||
|
1 steamer sunk 5 killed 26 wounded | none | ||||||
The bombardment of Madras was an engagement of the
Emden
at the outset of the war in 1914.
With
Burmah Oil Company with his searchlights, then fired at a range of 3,000 yards. After ten minutes of firing, Emden had hit five of the tanks and destroyed 346,000 gallons of fuel, and the cruiser then successfully retreated.[1]
Soon the word Emden entered the Tamil dictionary and was used to describe someone powerful, frightening and with a wicked intent.[2]
Footnotes
- ^ Keegan 2004, pp. 127–128.
- ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 2022-07-15.
References and external links
- ISBN 0-375-70046-3.
- The Last Corsair: The Story of The Emden by ISBN 0-586-06265-3
- The Last Gentleman of War. The Raider Exploits of the Cruiser Emden by R. K. Lochner, ISBN 0-87021-015-7
- The Last Cruise of the Emden: The Amazing True WWI Story of a German-Light Cruiser and Her Courageous Crew by ISBN 978-1-58574-382-7
- Hellmuth von Mücke, Helene Schimmelfennig White (1917). The Emden. Ritter.
- Karl Friedrich Max von Müller: Captain of the Emden During World War I by John M. Taylor
- New York Times: "German Cruiser Emden Destroyed", November 11, 1914 a PDF of NYT's report on Emden's sinking along with some praise for its captain.
- New York Times: "Captain of Emden Killed?", a PDF of a NYT article dated April 13, 1921
- "Junk-Emden". Time. 1929-05-06. Archived from the original on October 27, 2010. Retrieved 2008-08-08.
- Cruisers EMDEN, Frigates EMDEN - 5 warships named EMDEN until today (in German)
- World War I Naval Combat
- Karl Friedrich Max von Müller: Captain of the Emden During World War I
- How German cruiser ‘Emden’ struck terror in the heart of the British Empire, and became a Tamil word. The Hindu. February 23, 2020.
Further reading
- Frame, Tom. (2004). No Pleasure Cruise: The Story of the Royal Australian Navy. Sydney: ISBN 978-1-74114-233-4(paper)
- Hoehling, A. A. Lonely Command a Documentary Thomas Yoseloff, Inc., 1957.
- Hoyt, Edwin P. The Last Cruise of the Emden: The Amazing True World War I Story of a German-Light Cruiser and Her Courageous Crew. The Lyons Press, 2001. ISBN 1-58574-382-8.
- Hohenzollern, Franz Joseph, Prince of Emden: My Experiences in S.M.S. Emden. New York: G. Howard Watt, 1928.
- Lochner, R. K. Last Gentleman-Of-War: Raider Exploits of the Cruiser Emden Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1988. ISBN 0-87021-015-7.
- McClement, Fred. Guns in paradise. Paper Jacks, 1979. ISBN 0-7701-0116-X.
- Mücke, Hellmuth von. The Emden-Ayesha Adventure: German Raiders in the South Seas and Beyond, 1914. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000. ISBN 1-55750-873-9.
- Schmalenbach, Paul German Raiders: A History of Auxiliary Cruisers of the German Navy, 1895-1945. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1979. ISBN 0-87021-824-7.
- Van der Vat, Dan. Gentlemen of War: The Amazing Story of Captain Karl von Müller and the SMS Emden. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1984. ISBN 0-688-03115-3
- Walter, John The Kaiser's Pirates: German Surface Raiders in World War One. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1994. ISBN 1-55750-456-3.