A FAMOUS RAIDER.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 205, 31 August 1933, Page 22

A FAMOUS RAIDER.

NOW A CARGO BOAT. Labelled only as a freighter from Santa Marta with a cargo of bananas, the tramp steamer Greenbrier arrived recently at an English port. Behind that prosaic fact lurked, however, the identity of one of the most spectacular ships in the World War —the German raider Moewe, which for some time terrorised merchant shipping in the Atlantic. One of the Moewe's most remarkable exploits was the capture of the liner Appam off the West Coast of Africa, and her convoy as a prize to Norfolk, Virginia. When the Greenbrier turned up the other day, it was recalled by a passenger who sailed on the Appam in 1924 that in that year, almost exactly ten years after her capture by the Moewe, the Appam again on her West Coast run encountered her old enemy in almost the identical spot where the ea,pture had been effected. The two vessel exchanged compliments and went their ways to the far places of the seven seas.