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...July issue of the World's Work begins the narrative of Count Felix von Luckner, one of those stray adventurers on the fringe of the Great War who prevented even that mechanical conflict from being without its heroes. The only officer in the German Navy who had served under sail, he was chosen to command a raider which, disguised as a neutral schooner, was to break through the Allied blockade. The Sea Eagle, like the Confederate cruisers during the Civil War, carried the flag of a beleagured nation around the seas; like them, she destroyed enemy commerce while guarding...
There is an obvious contrast between the warfare of Count von Luckner and that of the average U-boat commander, which marks emphatically the contrast between the scientific and the personal in war. One submarine did ten times the damage done by the Sea Eagle; but it is not to the deadly reptiles of the under-ocean but to the daring sailing-vessel of the surface that the pain for valor goes...
Simultaneous with the nativity of rotoring in the U. S., the gigantic Count von Luckner, famed German sea-raider in wartime, declared he would spend two years circling the globe in Herr Flettner's Buckau, "to make rotorships known in all countries...