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HMS Fifi
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 operations on the lake and its surrounding areas. She had previously been operated by the Germans under the name ''Kingani'' named after the river Kingani.
After a short career supporting German troop movements in central Africa, she was unexpectedly challenged by two motor boats, named HMS ''Mimi'' and HMS ''Toutou'', which had been transported from Britain to the lake by an expedition led by Lieutenant-Commander Geoffrey Spicer-Simson. The faster and more nimble motor boats were able to chase down the ''Kingani'', which was unable to bring her larger weapon to bear on the small vessels without turning to face them. After being hit several times and crippled, and with her commanding officer and several men dead, she surrendered and was brought back to the British base. Brought into British service as ''Fifi'', she became the first German warship to be captured and transferred to the Royal Navy.
''Fifi'' went on to join the Anglo-Belgian flotilla in attacking and sinking her former consort, the , after a prolonged engagement which left ''Fifi'' with only two shells remaining, before she scored a crucial hit. She supported further allied operations on the lake, which involved working with land forces, but the flotilla did not participate in any offensive actions, and the last remaining German vessel, the ''Graf von Götzen'', was left unmolested. ''Fifi'' spent her last days as a government steamer, carrying passengers across the lake, until being scuttled as unseaworthy in 1924.
==Construction==
''Kingani'' was one of two screw steamers constructed by Meyer-Werft in Papenburg, Germany in 1893/4 for service as customs cruisers in the German East Africa. The ships displaced (), their overall length was with a beam. An engine (one boiler with and 10 at) delivered for a maximum speed of . Crewed by one officer and seven men, the boats were armed with a revolver gun.
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