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Word: seeadler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1930-1939
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When asked about his most amusing experience in the World War he started on the story of how he captured a steamer when the "Seeadler" was in bad need of drinking-water. "We had nothing but an old cannon made in 1820," he said, "but still we had to capture a ship. Finally we sighted a steamer, and sailed over to meet her. We put a long piece of stove piping over the end of our old gun, loaded it, and placed it ready for action. I scattered my men around the ship to yell out orders, because," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sleepy "Sea-Devil" Reminisces on Capture of Liquor-Laden Steamer--Loaded Stovepipe Masqueraded as Aerial Torpedo | 3/28/1931 | See Source »

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