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What if the HMCS Rainbow had actually run into the SMS Leipzig off of San Francisco?

HMCS Rainbow:
Displacement: 3,600 tons
Length: 314 feet
Beam: 43.5 feet
Draught: 17.5 feet
Speed: 19.75 knots
Complement: 273 to 300
Armament:
2 × QF 6-inch guns
6 × QF 4.7-inch guns
8 × 6 pounders,
2 to 4 × 14 inch Torpedo Tubes

SMS Leipzig:
Displacement: 3,250 tons
Length: 341 ft waterline
Beam: 17.5 ft
Draught: 43.5 ft
Speed: 23 knots
Complement: 286
Armament: 10 × 104 mm (4.1 in) 40 cal guns (10 × 1)
10 × 1-pounder guns
4 machine guns

Could Commander Walter Hose, and the “First Ship” of the Royal Canadian Navy, have defeated the SMS Leipzig, or would HMCS Rainbow’s first taste of combat, be her last?
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