Ayesha (ship)

SMS Ayesha
History
British Empire
Name	Ayesha
Launched	1907
Fate	Captured by landing party from SMS Emden
German Empire
Name	SMS Ayesha
Commissioned	9 November 1914
Fate	Scuttled
General characteristics
Class and type	Schooner
Tonnage	97 grt
Length	30 m (98 ft 5 in)
Beam	7.5 m (24 ft 7 in)
Propulsion	3 masts
Complement	6 (peacetime) 47 (as a prize crew)

The Ayesha owned by Clunies-Ross of Cocos Keeling Islands was a wooden topsail schooner, which was commandeered by a landing party of the German light cruiser SMS Emden. This landing party was able to escape being taken as prisoners of war, in November 1914, after their ship was destroyed in a battle with the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney.