Diary November 22, 1916

11-1916, War Diary, Year 1916 / 1 minute of reading

merchant raider Seeadler — The merchant raider ‘Seeadler’ made a successfull cruise and captured 15 Allied merchant ships in the Atlantic and Pacific in 225 days. She was a three-masted windjammer built in Scotland as the ‘Pass of Balmaha’. The ship was wrecked on a reef in the South Pacific and the crew eventually interned in Chile.

World War One Diary for Wednesday, November 22, 1916:

Sea War

North Sea: The only sailing raider of the World Wars; German square-rigged Seeadler leaves Germany for South Seas disguised as Norwegian timber ship (had been British-built 1878 and US owned until U-36 captured her July 24, 1915). Crew hides among cargo as ship passes through British Northern Patrol.

Eastern Front

Rumania: Austro-Germans retake Orsova on Danube. Captain Picht seizes and just holds Turnu Severin against Rumanian 1st Division until relieved by Austrian cyclist brigade on November 24.

Air War

Western Front: RFC destroy 2 German aircraft.

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My name is Norman 'Kretaner' and since my childhood I am interested in history and strategy games. Later, I have learned programming and the development of computer games, and finally with the Internet, also web design. I'm in the fortunate position to combine all my interests with my work and to live on a place of my choice, on Crete. All information, figures, specifications and statistics used here had been compiled from a variety of sources and the large, over decades collected, library of the author about military history, WW2 and weapons.

Sea War

Eastern Front

Air War

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