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The Amazing Cruise of the German Raider "Wolf"
The Amazing Cruise of the German Raider "Wolf"
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The Amazing Cruise of the German Raider "Wolf" is from the log of Captain A. Donaldson of the S.S. "Matunga". Published in Sydney in 1918. With many Photos and Maps and a hyperlinked Table of Contents. (154 pages)
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Contents:
Introduction — Chapter I. From Commander Nerger's Records — Chapter II. Crossing the Line — Chapter III. Laying Mines — Chapter IV. Capture of the First Ship — Chapter V. Nerger Bags the First Sailer — Chapter VI. Capture of the S.S. "Wairuna" (N.Z.) — Chapter VII. The "Beluga" Captured — Chapter VIII. The "Matunga'' Now Comes on the Scene — Chapter IX. "Good morning, Captain Donaldson!" — Chapter X. Introducing "Little Willie" — Chapter XI. A Spell in Pirate Cove — Chapter XII. A Mine Field for Singapore — Chapter XIII. Conditions in the "Hotel de Luxe" — Chapter XIV. Capture of the "Hitachi Maru" — Chapter XV. Sinking of the "Hitachi Maru" — Chapter XVI. A Consignment of Coal — Chapter XVII. Fords for Everybody — Chapter XVIII. Capture of the "Storobrore" — Chapter XIX. On the Road Back — Chapter XX. Back to Kiel — Chapter XXI. All Prisoners Ashore — Chapter XXII. On to Heidelberg — Chapter XXIII. On the Track Again — Chapter XXIV. "Now for Clausthal Lager" — Chapter XXV. "Old Harry" "Strafes" the Camp — Chapter XXVI. Camp Amusements — Chapter XXVII. How the End Came
Excerpts:
...Nothing that occurred during the Great War so closely touched Australia as the operations of the German raider "Wolf." Though there were, during the progress of the war, particularly in the earlier stages, many rumors and alarms of enemy invasion, while many estimable citizens were able to furnish the straight tip about visitations of enemy squadrons, of battles, of the sinking of transports and capture of merchantmen, of the detection of alien enemy subjects using wireless plants in many inaccessible places, and there were those who actually saw enemy aeroplanes, yet we have no authoritive information of enemy activities in our home seas other than those of the cruiser "Emden," the "See Adler," and the "Wolf." Of the two former enemy vessels little need be said here, full accounts having appeared in many sources of public information, and indeed, so far as affecting Australia was concerned, their activities were short-lived.
...The "Wolf," however, did disturb the peace of our home seas. Besides taking a considerable toll of our shipping by direct capture, evidenced by the cases of the "Matunga," "Wairuna," "Winslow," and other well-known boats, she laid several nests of "eggs" (mines) around the coast of Australia and New Zealand, some of which hatched and took a further toll of our local traders.
...The amazing cruise of the "Wolf" has then an intense local interest to the people of Australia and New Zealand. Ships owned and trading with both countries were victims, officers and crews captured were men well known in every local port, with their families and relatives scattered throughout the cities and towns of the sister dominions, not to mention the cargoes, make the sum total, which accounts for this concentration of local interest. And this must be accentuated from the experiences of these men. They were, in common with people taken from boats flying other flags, cooped up in this ship for many months, a great part of the time below decks with hatches battened down, particularly at times when quick egress might have been vital to their very lives. For whenever an alarm of an enemy vessel was given, the prisoners were unceremoniously hustled below and battened down, and it might easily have happened almost at any time that an Allied cruiser dropped across the "Wolf," which would have meant good-bye to the "Wolf" and very serious trouble for the prisoners. These people were ultimately taken to Germany, there to experience the hardships and discomforts of the enemy's internment camps, and during all the time which elapsed, those left behind could gather no tidings of them, knowing not whether they were "safe" (sic) in Davy Jones' locker, or marooned on some lonely island in the Pacific. True it is that many rumors gained currency as to the fate of the victims of the "Wolf." Wreckage of the "Matunga," information of the crew being cast away on a far distant island, capture by enemy raider, all these were...
The Publisher has copy-edited this book to improve the formatting, style and accuracy of the text to make it readable. This did not involve changing the substance of the text. Some books, due to age and other factors may contain imperfections. Since there are many books such as this one that are important and beneficial to literary interests, we have made it digitally available and have brought it back into print for the preservation of printed works of the past.
Contents:
Introduction — Chapter I. From Commander Nerger's Records — Chapter II. Crossing the Line — Chapter III. Laying Mines — Chapter IV. Capture of the First Ship — Chapter V. Nerger Bags the First Sailer — Chapter VI. Capture of the S.S. "Wairuna" (N.Z.) — Chapter VII. The "Beluga" Captured — Chapter VIII. The "Matunga'' Now Comes on the Scene — Chapter IX. "Good morning, Captain Donaldson!" — Chapter X. Introducing "Little Willie" — Chapter XI. A Spell in Pirate Cove — Chapter XII. A Mine Field for Singapore — Chapter XIII. Conditions in the "Hotel de Luxe" — Chapter XIV. Capture of the "Hitachi Maru" — Chapter XV. Sinking of the "Hitachi Maru" — Chapter XVI. A Consignment of Coal — Chapter XVII. Fords for Everybody — Chapter XVIII. Capture of the "Storobrore" — Chapter XIX. On the Road Back — Chapter XX. Back to Kiel — Chapter XXI. All Prisoners Ashore — Chapter XXII. On to Heidelberg — Chapter XXIII. On the Track Again — Chapter XXIV. "Now for Clausthal Lager" — Chapter XXV. "Old Harry" "Strafes" the Camp — Chapter XXVI. Camp Amusements — Chapter XXVII. How the End Came
Excerpts:
...Nothing that occurred during the Great War so closely touched Australia as the operations of the German raider "Wolf." Though there were, during the progress of the war, particularly in the earlier stages, many rumors and alarms of enemy invasion, while many estimable citizens were able to furnish the straight tip about visitations of enemy squadrons, of battles, of the sinking of transports and capture of merchantmen, of the detection of alien enemy subjects using wireless plants in many inaccessible places, and there were those who actually saw enemy aeroplanes, yet we have no authoritive information of enemy activities in our home seas other than those of the cruiser "Emden," the "See Adler," and the "Wolf." Of the two former enemy vessels little need be said here, full accounts having appeared in many sources of public information, and indeed, so far as affecting Australia was concerned, their activities were short-lived.
...The "Wolf," however, did disturb the peace of our home seas. Besides taking a considerable toll of our shipping by direct capture, evidenced by the cases of the "Matunga," "Wairuna," "Winslow," and other well-known boats, she laid several nests of "eggs" (mines) around the coast of Australia and New Zealand, some of which hatched and took a further toll of our local traders.
...The amazing cruise of the "Wolf" has then an intense local interest to the people of Australia and New Zealand. Ships owned and trading with both countries were victims, officers and crews captured were men well known in every local port, with their families and relatives scattered throughout the cities and towns of the sister dominions, not to mention the cargoes, make the sum total, which accounts for this concentration of local interest. And this must be accentuated from the experiences of these men. They were, in common with people taken from boats flying other flags, cooped up in this ship for many months, a great part of the time below decks with hatches battened down, particularly at times when quick egress might have been vital to their very lives. For whenever an alarm of an enemy vessel was given, the prisoners were unceremoniously hustled below and battened down, and it might easily have happened almost at any time that an Allied cruiser dropped across the "Wolf," which would have meant good-bye to the "Wolf" and very serious trouble for the prisoners. These people were ultimately taken to Germany, there to experience the hardships and discomforts of the enemy's internment camps, and during all the time which elapsed, those left behind could gather no tidings of them, knowing not whether they were "safe" (sic) in Davy Jones' locker, or marooned on some lonely island in the Pacific. True it is that many rumors gained currency as to the fate of the victims of the "Wolf." Wreckage of the "Matunga," information of the crew being cast away on a far distant island, capture by enemy raider, all these were...
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