Archibald Bisset Smith
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Archibald Bisset Smith VC was a Scottish recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth
portrait published in the Auckland Weekly News on 12 April 1917
Action of 10 March 1917
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The action of 10 March 1917 was a single-ship action in the First World War between the Imperial German Navy merchant raider SMS Möwe and the defensively-armed New Zealand Shipping Company cargo ship
Archibald Bisset Smith
…the VC for his First World War service. Smith received this award for his action as Master of the New Zealand Shipping Company cargo ship Otaki. On 10 March 1917 in the Atlantic Ocean, Otaki, armed with one 4.7-inch gun, sighted the German merchant raider SMS Möwe, which was armed with four 150 mm, one 105 mm…
The sinking of Otaki by SMS Möwe
Möwe in 1916 on her first cruise