TIL that in WWI, the Germans converted liner SMS Cap Trafalgar into an armed merchant cruiser, which they then disguised as the British liner HMS Carmania. Off the coast of Brazil, Trafalgar was attacked and sunk by a British ship. That ship was also an armed merchant cruiser; the real HMS Carmania.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_Cap_Trafalgar#World_War_I_battle_with_Carmania



Submitted April 09, 2015 at 07:21PM by Exceon http://www.reddit.com/r/todayilearned/comments/31zxf7/til_that_in_wwi_the_germans_converted_liner_sms/