The Hedwig von Wissmann was a German steamboat on Lake Tanganyika, which became a feature in the story behind the film The African Queen.

On 12 August 1914 she was drafted for guard service on Lake Tanganyika.

She was sunk by an Anglo-Belgian flotilla of small boats under Geoffrey Spicer-Simson in on 9 February 1916 at 11h50 in the Battle for Lake Tanganyika including HMS Fifi and HMS Mimi.

[1] German casualties were engineer and two African stokers killed in the engine room; a warrant officer and some African crew members killed[2] and a European stoker and an African seaman slightly wounded when two of the ships boats were hit by shells.

Twelve Europeans, including the captain Job Odebrecht,[3] and eight Africans were captured by the British.