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SS Gwendolen
SS ''Gwendolen'' (sometimes misspelled ''Guendolen'' and ''Gwendolyn'') was a British steamship on Lake Nyasa〔(The Guendolen (photo) )〕 that fought in the first naval action of World War I against the German steamship ''Hermann von Wissman'' which it caught on a slipway at Sphinxhafen, now known as Liuli.〔 "The Germans made repairs to the ''Von Wissmann'' but ''Gwendolen'' again arrived on the scene on May 30, 1915 when ''Von Wissmann'' was sent to the ... The British also had two other vessels on Lake Nyasa named ''Chauncy Maples'' and ''Queen Victoria''."〕
The 350 ton vessel was launched at Fort Johnston in 1899, and named after Lady Gwendolen Cecil, the then 29-year-old unmarried daughter of the Marquess of Salisbury.〔 "The steamer, which was christened the ''Gwendolen'', after Lord Salisbury's daughter, is 136 ft. long, 24 ft. beam, 19 ft. moulded depth, and has a mean draught of 5 ft. 6 in. Although her tonnage is not registered, 350 tons is a fair ..."〕 In 1907 the ''Gwendolen'' was the largest of three vessels formerly used as gunboats, the others being the and the ''Queen Victoria'', with four civilian steamers on the lake.〔 "This consists of three vessels, formerly used as gunboats, including the ''Gwendolen'', 350 tons, launched in 1899 at Fort Johnston, which is the headquarters of the department. For ordinary traffic there are 4 small steamers on the Lake ...〕
From 1914 she was commanded by Captain Edmund Rhoades who attacked the ''Hermann von Wissman'', the vessel of his friend and former drinking partner Captain Berndt, by surprise, with Berndt having been unaware that war had started.〔 "Rhoades was then startled to see his enraged German counterpart and old drinking partner, Captain Berndt, leap into a dinghy and climb aboard the ''Gwendolyn'' screaming curses and questioning Rhoades's sanity. It transpired that news of the war had not reached Liuli. Rhoades sat Berndt down with a whisky, explained the situation, then led away his angry prisoner of war"〕 William Percival Johnson later recalled that Captain Berndt, who had been master of the German vessel for its original purpose as an anti-slavery gunboat in the 1890s, had been a good friend of the British missionaries in the days of Chauncy Maples.〔 "Johnson recalled that "our very good friend Captain Berndt," in command of the German steamer ''Hermann von Wissmann'', "was a very frequent visitor in Maples' time" (Johnson 1926, 211; cf. CA 12 (): 71)."〕
In the 1920s the Nyasaland Government Marine Transport ran a monthly sailing of SS ''Gwendolen'' from Fort Johnson carrying goods and passengers on a 15-day round trip around various ports on the lake.〔 "For many years the Nyasaland Government Marine Transport operated a monthly sailing of the SS ''Guendolen'' from Fort Johnson carrying goods and passengers to various ports on the Lake, the round trip taking 15 days."〕
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