Sea Eagle (Seeadler)

Ship Details

Rig

Three-masted Windjammer/German Raider

Built

1888

Built In

Tonnage

4500

Demise

wrecked of French Polynesia August 1917

Description

SMS Seeadler (Ger: sea eagle) was a three-master windjammer. She was one of the last fighting sailing ships to be used in war when she served as a merchant raider with Imperial Germany in World War I. Built as the US-flagged Pass of Balmaha, she was captured by the German submarine SM U-36, and in 1916 converted to a commerce raider. As Seeadler she had a successful raiding career, capturing and sinking 15 ships in 225 days until she was wrecked, in September 1917, in French Polynesia.

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