Iberian News 1912

[khymerion]

What ever assistance that the DKB can provide in the hunt for this ship, ask and the materials and resources will be made available.

[miketr]

If the ship in question is spotted just follow it long enough for the Armada to show...

[Desertfox]

It's going to be very hard to find her if she is in the Pacific. Taugon has plenty of friends in NS. But then again, even I don't know where he is.

[miketr]

He doesn't even know he is being hunted...  and he will show up sooner or later...  even if it takes years.  Bye bye pirate...

[Desertfox]

He is a mercenary not a pirate, and he was contracted by the Ottomans to raid Iberian shipping. Soon as he hears word of the war's end, he'll probably stop raiding.

[miketr]

He is a mercenary not a pirate, and he was contracted by the Ottomans to raid Iberian shipping. Soon as he hears word of the war's end, he'll probably stop raiding.

The details of why Iberia is going after him will come out once he is caught or sunk.  ;)  It helps if both parties are using the same script...

[miketr]

Iberian Civilian Losses in the war

Civilian Losses

17 July 1912 - Southern Greece
The Iberian convoy, consisting of three tramp freighters loaded to the decks with various arms and supplies, is screened by the Fifth Cruiser Squadron, Manila and Lisbon, along with five torpedo-boats of the Second Torpedo Division.  The First Cruiser Squadron, with two armored cruisers, is trailing at some distance as a covering force.

Their destination, Pylos <CUT>

Three hundred yards offshore, a geyser of water erupts along the port bow of the lead freighter, Nuestra Senora del Buen Consejo*.  Her electric lights flicker and die, and she coasts to a stop a few dozen yards short of the pier, down visibly by the bow.

22 July 1912:  Manila
SS Andalucia (3,250 GRT), bound from Iberia to the Philippines via the Suez Canal, is declared five days overdue.


6 August 1912:  Manila
The tramp freighter San Francisco Javier, (2,344 GRT) is reported six days overdue from Brazil via the Drake Passage.

19 August 1912:  Lisbon
The freighter SS Reina (3,190 GRT)

28 August 1912:  Malta
The tramp freighter SS Magnanimo (2,656 GRT) is reported eight days overdue from Parana

3 September 1912:  Ponta Delgada, Azores
The tramp freighter San Leandro (1,217 GRT), expected from Lisbon, is declared five days overdue and presumed lost.

18 September 1912:  Vigo, Iberia
The Nuestra Señora de Las Vinas (2,682 GRT) is reported six days overdue from Belem, Brazil.

21 September 1912:  Cartagena
The Iberian embassy is advised that the Iberian refidgerated freighter Halcon (4,488 GRT), expected in Esmeraldas on 12 September 1912 from Manila, is now a week overdue.

23 September 1912:  Crete
The requisitioned passenger liner Nuestra Senora de Begona strikes two mines in quick succession, six miles northwest of the Cretan coast.  She sinks in twenty minutes, taking a brigade's worth of heavy equipment and supplies with her.  One hundred seven crewmen and embarked soldiers are killed.

4 October 1912:  Belem, Brazil
The private yacht Princesa (780 GRT), expected from Lisbon, is reported six days overdue.

Totals

tramp freighter Nuestra Senora del Buen Consejo
SS Andalucia (3,250 GRT)
San Francisco Javier, (2,344 GRT)
SS Reina (3,190 GRT)
SS Magnanimo (2,656 GRT)
San Leandro (1,217 GRT)
Nuestra Señora de Las Vinas (2,682 GRT)
Halcon (4,488 GRT)
passenger liner Nuestra Senora de Begona
yacht Princesa (780 GRT)

butchers bill

20,607 GRT + 2 other ships

I just need the size of the 2 other ships...

[The Rock Doctor]

*Concentrates mental powers*

2,404 GRT and 9,699 GRT respectively.