The Making of a Sailing Raider: SMS Seeadler
Dirk Nottelmann provides, as part of his wider study of cruisers of the Imperial German Navy, some fresh insights into the story of one of the most famous auxiliary warships in history: Seeadler – the only sail-powered commerce-raider. These focus on the ship’s ‘prehistory’ as told by archival sources, rather than the oft-cited, and sometimes unreliable memoirs of her commanding officer, Kapitänleutnant Count Felix von Luckner, and other later publications.
