Alfred Tattersall
1889
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This photograph shows the bow of the battered and beached SMS Adler in Apia harbour in 1889. Alfred James Tattersall took the photograph just after the cyclone wreaked havoc and took around 200 Euro-American sailors’ lives. The ship, built in the Kaiserliche Werft Kiel, capsized and can be seen on its port side, stuck on the reef. Prior to the severe weather event, the German navy used her to shell high chief Malietoa Laupepa’s soldiers who were based on Manono and Apolima Island on 5 September 1888.
Author: Charlotte Klinge, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
Author: Charlotte Klinge, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa
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Christine Liava’a: Strangers in the Sāmoan Islands: foreigners mentioned in the cyclopedia of Sāmoa - 1907. New Zealand Society of Genealogists. 2002.
Unbekannter Autor: The cyclopedia of Samoa, Tonga, Tahiti, and the Cook Islands. 1907.