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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...novel cruise on a four-masted schooner yacht with Count Felix von Luckner, the famous German sea raider, as skipper, is being planned for a group of about fifty Harvard men during the coming spring vacation...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MEN TO TAKE CRUISE TO BERMUDA ON LUCKNER'S YACHT | 3/24/1931 | See Source »

...Irrepressible Count Felix ("Sea Devil") von Luckner last week set out with friends on his schooner Mophelia to cruise and shark-fish in the Bahamas. His shark-tackle: A 100-ft. rubber rope which, he solemnly declared, would snap sharks out of the water when they finished their rushes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Winter Islands | 1/26/1931 | See Source »

Count Felix ("Sea-Devil") von Luckner weighed anchor on his four-masted schooner Mopelia, set sail for a two-month cruise in the West Indies. Aboard were 46 small boys whose parents are paying $1,500 per boy to have the Count instil in their children "a love of the sea." Aboard also were talking cinema photographers, newsmen, feature writers, Countess von Luckner. Fire in the galley delayed the Mopelia's start 24 hours...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Jul. 14, 1930 | 7/14/1930 | See Source »

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