Manza Bay
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Manza Bay (Ghuba la Manza, in Swahili) is a bay in Mkinga District of Tanga Region of Tanzania. The bay is home to Kwale Island and is surrounded in the north by Boma peninsula. It is on the coast, some Script error: No such module "convert". north of the town of Tanga.[1]
History
In the East African campaign of World War I, the Royal Navy protected cruiser Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". attacked and damaged a German auxiliary ship off Manza Bay on 14 April 1915. It was a Template:GRT British cargo steamship, Rubens, which the German authorities had seized in Hamburg in 1914. The German Navy had disguised Rubens as the Danish cargo ship Kronborg and sent her to replenish the cruiser Script error: No such module "WPSHIPS utilities". in the Indian Ocean.[2]
The German crew succeeded in beaching their ship in the bay, salvaged all the arms and ammunition from RubensTemplate:' cargo, and abandoned her. The arms and ammunition helped German land forces in East Africa to continue their campaign against British and Empire forces.[2][3]
RubensTemplate:' cargo also included coal to bunker Königsberg. In 1956 an Italian salvage company repaired RubensTemplate:' hull, refloated her, towed her to Dar es Salaam with two tugboats and sold her coal to the East African Railways and Harbours Corporation.[2]
In World War II the Royal Navy laid indicator loops off Manza Bay to defend the coast against German and Japanese submarines.
See also
References
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