The Schleswig-Holstein War - Blowing Up of the Screw Steamer "Von der Tan", 1850. Creator: Unknown. The Schleswig-Holstein War - Blowing Up of the Screw Steamer "Von der Tan", 1850. Creator: Unknown

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The Schleswig-Holstein War - Blowing Up of the Screw Steamer "Von der Tan", 1850. Creator: Unknown. The Schleswig-Holstein War - Blowing Up of the Screw Steamer "Von der Tan", 1850. Creator: Unknown

The Schleswig-Holstein War - Blowing Up of the Screw Steamer "Von der Tan", 1850. Depiction of...a strategic episode in the war - the blowing up of the screw steamer Von der Tann, thus related by the Times correspondent: "Considerable sensation had been created in Hamburg on the 22nd [August] by the intelligence that Lieutenant Lange, commanding the Schleswig-Holstein steam gun-boat Von der Tann, had blown up his ship rather than suffer her to fall into the hands of the Danes. It appears that he was trying to make his way from Trasemunde [Travemunde] to Neustadt, when the vessel ran on shore. Fearing lest she might be made a prize by the enemy's cruisers, the crew took to the boats and set fire to the Von der Tann, which soon afterwards blew up". The ship was later repaired and taken over by the Danish navy, and renamed Storen. From "Illustrated London News", 1850

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