Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1917-10-10
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waS permitted 10 sail for RIO Janc!rj
where they ali arrived safely.
What appeared to the German OIL.
GERS an amusing incident OF the cruise
With the rcany prisoners las how the
Wifc OF the French sea captain waved
franticaiiy with her handkerchief TO
the wife Of the captaiH OF a Brit
ish vessel on which the raider was
bearing down. But wien the Sea Ad-
iers guns doomed out a; the British
| vessel. the British navigatOr's vile
stopped her waving y ith friGhtc0eG
gesture. tie Sea AdIer's officers fire.
quently recounted TO their prisoners in
the Pacific.
HescJs for the Pacific
When the search for tie north At
lantic raider became too hot, the Sea
| Adler headed for the Pacific encir-
cling South America by the way OF
Cape Horn From Cape Horn the YES
sci coasted along the South Ameri'
| can coast until east Of the Marquesas
| islands, from where she headed for
the equator crossing Of the trade yes.
sells in the southern Pacific.
The A. B. Johnson, Captain Peter
son in command, bound from Villa
Harbor, Wash. 10 Newcastle, y. S. W.
was the first vessel encountered and
captured in the Pacific This was
June II, when the A. b Johnson was
% days out from Villa HarbOT. She
was at latitude south and longitude
$50 west, or about $50 miles south of
the equator when overtaken by the
Sea Adler. Much difficulty was exper-
| fenced by the raiders in destroying
the Johnson, as she was loaded with
lumber, An attempt was made to
burn her, but the lumber cargo could
not be ignited A number of shells
from the four-inch guns we're fired
into her hulk, but the lumber cargo
still continued to float. Dynamite
was resorted 10 and the ship left
afire
Vying in interest with the story
of the destruction of American ship
ping in the Pacific is the one telling
OF the outfitting and putting to sea
on a raider cruise Of the Sea Adler
the second Eagle-from Bremen
haven, Germany, last December.
This story, never ending one Of
adventure, as told by the German raid
ers to their American prisoners while
held for weeks aboard the Sea Adler.
left its impression so firmly upon
the mind of Captain Smith that this
morning he constantly stopped his
tale of adventure to tell OF one of the
German raiders, whose accomplish
ments in reality rival those of the dar-
ing crew of the Emden.
Historic has been the experience
of the Sea Adler, the former Ameri-
can vessel Pass Bahama, brought
by her British owners under the
American register shortly after the
European war began in 1914. Loaded
with a contraband cargo the Pass
Bahama put to sea for a neutral
port OF Sweden or Norway. -
Reeaptured BY u-soat
En- route she was captured by
British cruiser and a prize command
er put in command to take her to a
port on the Scotland coast Scarcely
had the British cruiser disappeared
than a German submarine came along
side and put crew on board.
Conveyed by the submarine the
American vessel was then taken to
Bremerhaven, where she remained af-
ter being renamed the Sea Adler, until
December q, 1916. Meantime she
had been outfitted as a German raid
er, the government supplying the men
and guns and the Bremerhayen
Steamship company the supplies.
1t was on this date that the Ger
| man raider put to sea on her eight
months cruise which ended on Sep
| TENDER at Mopeha island where
her hulk lies rotting today, as it is
washed by the South Seas.
Extreme caution and cunning were
shown by the Germans in sending the
second sea eagle to sea. Norwegian
clearance papers we're forged; 90 of
her crew were selected because they
| spoke the Norwegian language, as
did her commander, Felix Graf
Won Luckner, a lieutenant command.
er in active service, known to the
American survivor Of his Southern
Pacific cruise as "the count"
The burning hulk of the schooner
Johnson was sighted the following
night by the master of the American
schooner Otillie Fjord from San Fran
cisco, who narrowly escaped having
his vessel sighted by the Sea Adler
II was the burnt hulk of the Johnson
which is supposed to have been re-
ported as also sighted near the Jarvis
islands.
r. c. Siade Run Down
Capt. Smiths contact with the Ger.
man raider began June II, when his
ship, the r. c. Slade, was near lati-
tude North and $50 west, about
30 miles north of the equator and 240
miles from where the A. B. Johnson
had been shelled
It was Sunday evening and the first
mate of the Slade reported to Capt.
Slade about O'Clock that an uniden-
titled ship was coming up astern.
Capt. Smith went below for supper
but was called to the deck half an
hour later when the strange vessel
began firing at the Slade. The shells
fell short about two miles as the Sea
Adler was eight miles astern.
At the ninth shot from the Sea Ad.
Ter shell fell so near the Slade that
fountain of water fell over the deck
and her paint work was blackened by
q H.