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Scuttling of SMS Cormoran
The Scuttling of SMS ''Cormoran'' off Guam on April 7, 1917 was the result of the United States entry into World War I and the internment of the German
merchant raider SMS ''Cormoran''. The incident was the only hostile encounter between United States and German military forces during the Pacific Ocean campaign of the war.
==Background==
SMS ''Cormoran'' was originally a passenger and cargo ship, named ''SS Ryaezan'' and built by the Germans in 1909 for the Russian merchant fleet. When the war broke out, she was captured off Korea by SMS ''Emden'' and transformed into an auxiliary cruiser. ''Cormoran'' was armed with eight 10.5 cm (4.1 in) rapid fire guns from the original SMS ''Cormoran'' and commanded by Captain Adalbert Zuckschwerdt. The number of crew she had on board is not known. Setting out from Tsingtao on August 10, 1914 for a commerce raiding cruise in the South Pacific, SMS ''Cormoran'' failed to sink any enemy shipping as she spent all of her time avoiding allied warships.
Captain Zuckschwerdt pulled into Apra Harbor, Guam on December 14 with the intention of receiving coal from the Americans on the island. The United States was a neutral power at this time so the Germans were refused the proper amount of coal needed to continue their voyage, there was little coal on the island for the Americans and Guamanians themselves. So the German sailors were interned and for about two years they lived among the Americans and Guamanians in friendship until the American entry into World War I.
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