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Ships

A picture of the prisoners from SMS SeaGull, taken on March 4, 1916, in Bremerhaven, showing the crews from captured vessels after the first Atlantic raid.

This is an exhaustive list of ships captured and/or sunk by direct action of Count Dohna's SeaGull. Click on a ship's name to get detailed information. Click here to sort this list into date order.

• Appam, captured on January 15, 1916.
• Ariadne, captured and sunk on January 15, 1916.
• Asnieres, French barque captured and sunk on January 2, 1917.
• Author, captured and sunk on January 13, 1916.
• Bayo, Spanish steamer, mined and sunk on January 13, 1916.
• Belgica, Spanish steamer, mined and sunk on January 15, 1916.
• Bonheur, Norwegian steamer, mined and sunk on January 7, 1916.
• Brecknockshire, captured and sunk on February 15, 1917.
• Cambrian Range, captured and sunk on December 8, 1916.
• Clan MacTavish, captured and sunk on January 16, 1916.
• Corbridge, captured on January 11; sunk on January 30, 1916.
• Demeterton, captured and sunk on March 13, 1917.
• Dramatist, captured and sunk on December 18, 1916.
• Dromonby, captured and sunk on January 13, 1916.
• Duchess Of Cornwall, schooner captured and sunk December 8, 1916.
• Duckbridge, collier mined and sunk on February 22, 1916.
• Eddie, captured and sunk on February 16, 1917.
• Edinburgh, captured and sunk on January 22, 1916.
• Eskimo, taken as a war prize on July 26, 1916 at Risor Norway.
• Esmeraldas, captured and sunk on March 10, 1917.
• Farringford, captured and sunk on January 11, 1916.
• Flamenco, captured and sunk on February 6, 1916.
• French Prince, captured and sunk on February 16, 1917.
• Georgic, captured and sunk on December 10, 1916.
• Governor, captured and sunk on December 13, 1916.
• Hallbjorg, Norwegian steamer captured and sunk on December 4, 1916.
• Horace, captured and sunk on February 9, 1916.
• Hudson Maru, Japanese steamer captured on January 4, and released on January 12, 1917.
• Jean, schooner captured and sunk by SMS Geier on December 31, 1916.
• Katherine, captured and sunk on February 23, 1917.
• HMS King Edward VII, warship mined and sunk on January 6, 1916.
• King George, captured and sunk on December 8, 1916.
• Luxembourg, Belgian steamer captured and sunk on February 4, 1916.
• Maroni, French steamer captured and sunk on February 22, 1916.
• Minieh, captured and sunk on January 9, 1917.
• Mount Temple, captured and sunk on December 6, 1916.
• Nantes, French barque captured and sunk on December 26, 1916.
• Netherby Hall, captured and sunk on January 9, 1917.
• Otaki, captured and sunk on March 10, 1917.
• Radnorshire, captured on January 7, 1917 and sunk the next day.
• Rhodanthe, captured and sunk on March 4, 1917.
• Saint Theodore, captured December 12, 1916; sunk February 14, 1917.
• Saxon Prince, captured and sunk on February 25, 1916.
• Staut, Norwegian bark captured and sunk by Geier January 3, 1917.
• Trader, captured and sunk on January 13, 1916.
• Voltaire, captured and sunk on December 2, 1916.
• Westburn, captured on February 8, scuttled on February 23, 1916.
• Wilston, collier mined on February 15, 1916.
• Yarrowdale, captured as a war prize on December 11, 1916.



• Unidentified Norwegian ship, captured and sunk on December 5, 1916.


Vessels Claimed As War Losses
Post War

• Brown Brothers, American bark sailed on November 13, 1916, claimed as loss.
• Orleanian, American steamship sailed on December 23, 1915, claimed as loss.
• Timandra, American bark sailed on March 6, 1917, claimed as loss.


The German Freighter Raiders.

• Meteor, first of the freighter raiders.
• SeaGull, most successful of the raiders.
• Wolf I, never got to sea.
• Greif, lost while breaking out.
• Wolf II, at sea for 15 months.
• Seeadler, a three-masted sailing bark.
• Leopard, lost while breaking out.

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