Von Luckner Sank 14
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Ships Before Capture
Captain Felix von Luckner, com mander of the German sea raider "Seeadler", sailed some 30,000 miles between December 21, 1916, and August 2, 1917, playing havoc with Allied shipping.
During those seven months, he captured and sank no less than 14 ships—ll in the Atlantic and three in the Pacific—without taking a single life.
On August 2, 1917, the "Seeadler" herself met disaster when she was wrecked by a tidal wave at un inhabited Mopelia Island in the Society Group.
Undaunted, von Luckner and six of his men set off in an open boat in the hope of capturing another ship in which to continue their harassing raids. On August 21, 1917, they reached Wakaya, Fiji, where Kini McPherson came into the picture.