What the records say
- When
- 22 Sep 1914
- Kind
- Battle
- Coordinates
- 17.53° S, 149.57° W
- Description
- 1914 battle
- War
- World War I
Bombardment of Papeete
First World War battle in French Polynesia
The Bombardment of Papeete occurred in French Polynesia when German warships attacked on 22 September 1914, during World War I. The German armoured cruisers SMS Scharnhorst and Gneisenau entered the port of Papeete on the island of Tahiti and sank the French gunboat Zélée and freighter Walküre before bombarding the town's fortifications.
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- Wikipedia year pages (Japanese), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “ドイツ海軍がパペーテを砲撃”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page