Moewe SMS

Ship Details

Rig

German Commerce Raider

Built

1915

Tonnage

9800

Demise

taken as war reparations by UK; sunk as German freighter Oldenburg 7 in April 1945

Description

SMS Möwe (German: Seagull) was a merchant raider of the Imperial German Navy which operated against Allied shipping during World War I.
Disguised as a neutral cargo ship to enable it to get close to targets, the Möwe was effective at commerce raiding, sinking 40 ships in the course of the war.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS_M%C3%B6we (accessed on 8/6/2018)

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