HMS Fifi was an armed screw steamer, captured from the Germans by Royal Navy units during the Battle for Lake Tanganyika, and used to support Anglo-Belgian...
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Look up fifi in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Fifi may refer to: Fifi (Better Call Saul), an episode of the TV show Fifi, a Beverly Hills Teens character...
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action, on 26 December 1915 Kingani was damaged and captured, becoming HMS Fifi. In the second, the small flotilla overwhelmed and sank Hedwig von Wissmann...
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February 1916 at 11h50 in the Battle for Lake Tanganyika including HMS Fifi and HMS Mimi. German casualties were engineer and two African stokers killed...
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that killed her commander and four of her crew. Kingani was rechristened HMS Fifi and brought under Spicer-Simson's command. As a result, on 3 January 1916...
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surprise attack on the Germans, capturing the gunboat Kingani – renamed HMS Fifi. They sank a second German vessel, Hedwig von Wissmann, in February 1916;...
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HMS Mimi and HMS Toutou were motor launches of the Royal Navy. After undergoing an unusual journey from Britain to Lake Tanganyika in the interior of Africa...
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Tanganyika. They captured the German ship Kingani on 26 December, renaming it HMS Fifi and with two Belgian ships under the command of Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson...
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The British captured the German ship Kingani on 26 December, renamed it HMS Fifi and accompanied by two Belgian ships, attacked and sank the German ship...
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attacked Abercorn. A British flotilla, consisting of the Mimi, Toutou, HMS Fifi and Vengeur was organised on Lake Tanganyika to support the land forces...
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