Word: luckner
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Count Felix von Luckner will recount his raiding expeditions in the Seeadler during the World War at a luncheon of 250 Union members at 1.10 o'clock this noon...
Count von Luckner arrived in Boston yesterday and during his two day stay he has four lectures listed with full houses assured for all of them...
There was one figure in the war who received but little publicity a year or so ago--and this was despite the fact that he had the whole Allied forces on the lookout for his mystery ship during the early months of 1917. Count von Luckner remains one of the romantic figures of the war. Though he sank nearly a score of Allied ships, and, what is more remarkable still, though he killed not one man during the course of these sinkings, it remained for his biography by Lowell Thomas to interest the public in his remarkable story...
Lieutenant Commander Ellsberg conducted the salvage operations on the submarines S-51 and S-4 while Count Luckner is best known for his raiding of 17 Allied ships during the war without killing or injuring a man. Ellsberg has encountered many dangers in his 14 years of experience in salvage work, when diving to direct operations on sunken vessels. For his work in the salvaging of the S-51 he has been awarded the distinguished Service Medal...
...Count Luckner is one of the best known World War figures and is famous because of his daring raids conducted with a camouflaged schooner. He has been decorated several times for bravery and for chivalrous treatment of his prisoners...