Word: seeteufel
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...Count arrived back in Stettin harbor on his yacht, the Seeteufel, during the last week of February. He asked to be remembered to his thousands of friends and followers in America...
...TIME'S Jan. 13 story cited rumors that Count Luckner, famed sea raider of World War I, was raiding again in the Pacific, not in his yacht Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") but in a 7,100-ton armed merchantman. Now 56-according to Wer Ist's, the German Who's Wh -the Count likes to tell people he is 72, then show he is still in the prime by tearing telephone books...
...poked about the Caribbean for two months with a crew of 46 U. S. youngsters, to teach them "a love of the sea." By 1937 he was back in his World War I hunting grounds on a two-year round-the-world junket. With his sailing yacht Seeteufel he slipped through Australian waters, taking soundings, making a picture record of his trip with the help of a Nazi Government photographer. A New Zealander who accompanied him from Auckland to Sydney discovered the Seeteufel buttressed with steel braces, stocked with arms and munitions. By the time war broke out the Count...
Felix, Count von Luckner, famed Wartime sea raider, sailed from Stettin, Germany in the schooner Seeteufel ("Sea Devil") on a two-year, 16,000-mi. world cruise "not after ships, but out to capture hearts for Germany...
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