GERMAN RAIDER SUNK

Dominion, Volume 10, Issue 3173, 25 August 1917, Page 7

GERMAN RAIDER SUNK

BY BRITISH WARSHIP MANY OF THE CREW RESCUED New York, Ai.giut 23. The "New York and Evening World" states that 'the British steamship Harrington Head has reported that a British warship sank tho German raider Seeadler in the Atlantic, a thousand miles from New York. The Seeadler went down fighting, and part of the crew were lost at their posts. The warship summoned the Harrington Head, and also tho British steamer Edith Cavell, to take aboard the rescued Germans. . The Harrington Head is now homeward bound, and is reported to havo 'thirteen Germans aboard.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. [The "Nautical Magazine" of .Tune, 1917, said: The raider reported in the Atlantic at the end of lost March has been definitely recognised rs the American barque Pass of Balmaha, which was captoed by a German submarine in August, 1915, while on a voyage from New York to Archangel with a cargo ot cotton. She is a steel ship, built on the Clyde, of 1571 tons burden, and waa owned by the Harris-Trby Cotton Co., Boston, Jla6s. It would be interesting, to know why the Germans selected this vessel for conversion into a raider. Doubtless they considered her to bo of a type well calculated to allay suspicion. At all events they appear to have fitted her with oil engines, capable of driving her at 12 knots. Rechristened Seeadler (German for sea eagle) she left Germany on December 22, 1910, escorted for the first few days by a-submarine. She carried a load of mines, fiomo of which sho subsequently laid off tho Brazilian-coast, and was also armed with ■ two 24.1-inch quick-firers and many machine-guns, Sho had three masts equipped with wireless aerials. Members of her ctow were very communicative, to their prisoners about the methods by which they got through tho blockade line in the North Sea. When she left Germany they said that the guns were hidden in. tho hold. Two gasoline launches were also stowed below, and the wireless gear was. ingeniously concealed in the rigging.]