Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse mu utumiki wa Privateer
August 26, 1914, nkhondo yapakati pa Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse ndi Highflyer mu chithunzi cha Willi Stöwer.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse anali woyamba ku Germany wothandiza panyanja kutayika pa Nkhondo Yoyamba Yapadziko Lonse. Paulendo wake, adakwanitsa kumira zombo zitatu zokha zokhala ndi mphamvu zokwana 10 GRT. Koma nthawi zabwino kwambiri za "okwera" a ku Germany monga oyenda payekha zinali zisanafike, ndipo kupambana kwa imodzi mwa zombozi kunali kochititsa chidwi kwambiri.
Kale ndi kulowa kwa Germany mu Nkhondo Yoyamba Yapadziko Lonse (Ogasiti 1, 1914), zombo za dziko lino zidachita zachinsinsi pamizere yanyanja yamayiko a Entente - mdani wa Berlin pankhondo iyi. Cholemetsa chachikulu cha ntchitoyi chinali kuganiziridwa ndi sitima zapamadzi, koma malo awo ang'onoang'ono ochitapo kanthu sanawalole kugwira ntchito m'madzi akutali a South Atlantic, Pacific ndi Indian Ocean. Kumeneko, zochitika zapadera zinkachitidwa ndi zombo zapamadzi zomwe zinatumizidwa kumadera amenewo nkhondo isanayambe kapena m'masiku oyambirira a nkhondo - gulu lankhondo loyendetsedwa ndi Vadm. Maximilian von Spee kuphatikiza 4 ma light cruisers.
Chifukwa cha kuchepa kwa mphamvu izi, lamulo la Kaiserliche Marine linaganiza zogwiritsa ntchito ma cruisers othandizira pazochitika zapadera. Anamangidwanso ngati zombo zonyamula anthu, zotha kuthamanga kwambiri kuti zidutse sitima iliyonse komanso kuthawa zombo za adani. "Okwera" okwana 20 adasankhidwa kuti amangidwenso, ndipo kumayambiriro kwa nkhondo, si onse omwe anali kunyumba, ena anali m'madera, ndipo ngakhale panyanja.
Pa Ogasiti 2, 1914, sitima yapamadzi ya "Hilfskreuzer D" Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse (14 brt) wa kampani ya Norddeutscher Lloyd kuchokera ku Bremen inayamba ntchito.
Chifukwa cha kumangidwanso kochitidwa ndi Dipatimenti ya Umisiri wa mwini zombo ku Bremerhaven, gawo ili lotha (lomwe linayambitsidwa mu 1897) linali ndi mfuti za 6 105 mm ndi mfuti za 2 37 mm. Mapazi anaikidwa awiriawiri m’mbali mwake – 4 ku uta ndi 2 kumbuyo. August 4 - pa tsiku la kulengeza nkhondo ku Germany ndi Great Britain - Cairo Wilhelm der Grosse motsogozedwa ndi Mtsogoleri. Lieutenant Max Reimann ananyamuka ku Bremerhaven kukamenya nkhondo. Kupereka kwa corsairs kumayenera kuperekedwa ndi zombo za ku Germany zomwe zimakhala m'madera kapena
m'madoko a mayiko osalowerera ndale.
Sitimayo, popanda kudziwika, inawoloka Nyanja ya Kumpoto, inazungulira Iceland kuchokera kumpoto ndipo inakafika kumpoto kwa Atlantic. Kale pa Ogasiti 7, pafupifupi maola 19, pafupifupi 00 mailosi kum'mwera chakumadzulo kwa Iceland, ngalawa anakumana wovulalayo woyamba - British nsomba trawler Tubal Kaini (malinga ndi mabuku ena Tubalcain, 50 BRT, madzi 227, mwini ngalawa John E. Rushworth - Rushworth Steam Fishing Co. kuchokera ku Grimsby), omwe antchito ake a 1905 adagwidwa, ndipo sitimayo inali ca. Pa 14:21 zida zamoto (malinga ndi mtundu wina, zophulika) zidamizidwa. Inali sitima yoyamba yotumizidwa pansi ndi corsair yachinsinsi pa nthawi ya nkhondoyo. The Kaiser ndiye analowera kum'mwera ndipo patapita masiku 00 anakumana chombo china, koma kunapezeka kuti katundu sitima Il Piemonte (5 brt) pansi pa Chitaliyana ndipo choncho ndale mbendera, kotero ngalawa anamasulidwa. Reimann adaganiza kuti anthu aku Italiya azidziwitsa a British
za msonkhano, kotero iye anaganiza mwamsanga kusintha dera ntchito kwa thupi la madzi ili ngakhale kum'mwera, m'dera la Canaries Spanish.
