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Word: seeadler (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...biggest troublemaker in the Pacific was the onetime British-owned Glengarry, a 7,100-ton merchantman captured by the Germans at Copenhagen and fitted out as an auxiliary cruiser. Its skipper: Count Felix von Luckner, who hoodwinked the British for eight months in World War I, while his Seeadler ran up a score of 15 ships in the Atlantic and Pacific, who boasted his exploits had never cost a life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World War: AT SEA: Return of the Sea Devil? | 1/13/1941 | See Source »

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