Count Dohna and His SeaGull ^©

Ships

A picture of SMS SeaGull, taken on March 4, 1916, in Bremerhaven harbor, showing the house flags from vessels captured in the first Atlantic voyage.

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 name order.

Moewe First Atlantic Voyage
December 29, 1915 - March 4, 1916

• HMS King Edward VII, warship mined and sunk on January 6, 1916.
• Bonheur, Norwegian steamer, mined and sunk on January 7, 1916.
• Farringford, captured and sunk on January 11, 1916.
• Corbridge, captured on January 11; sunk on January 30, 1916.
• Bayo, Spanish steamer, mined and sunk on January 13, 1916.
• Dromonby, captured and sunk on January 13, 1916.
• Author, captured and sunk on January 13, 1916.
• Trader, captured and sunk on January 13, 1916.
• Belgica, Spanish steamer, mined and sunk on January 15, 1916.
• Ariadne, captured and sunk on January 15, 1916.
• Appam, captured on January 15, 1916.
• Clan MacTavish, captured and sunk on January 16, 1916.
• Edinburgh, captured and sunk on January 22, 1916.
• Luxembourg, Belgian steamer captured and sunk on February 4, 1916.
• Flamenco, captured and sunk on February 6, 1916.
• Westburn, captured on February 8, scuttled on February 23, 1916.
• Horace, captured and sunk on February 9, 1916.
• Wilston, collier mined on February 15, 1916.
• Duckbridge, collier mined and sunk on February 22, 1916.
• Maroni, French steamer captured and sunk on February 22, 1916.
• Saxon Prince, captured and sunk on February 25, 1916.


Moewe Baltic Raids
June 12 - August 24, 1916

• Eskimo, taken as a war prize on July 26, 1916 at Risor Norway.


Moewe Second Atlantic Voyage
November 23, 1916 - March 22, 1917

• Voltaire, captured and sunk on December 2, 1916.
• Hallbjorg, Norwegian steamer captured and sunk on December 4, 1916.
• Unidentified Norwegian ship, captured and sunk on December 5, 1916.
• Mount Temple, captured and sunk on December 6, 1916.
• Duchess Of Cornwall, schooner captured and sunk December 8, 1916.
• King George, captured and sunk on December 8, 1916.
• Cambrian Range, captured and sunk on December 8, 1916.
• Georgic, captured and sunk on December 10, 1916.
• Yarrowdale, captured as a war prize on December 11, 1916.
• Saint Theodore, captured December 12, 1916; sunk February 14, 1917.
• Dramatist, captured and sunk on December 18, 1916.
• Nantes, French barque captured and sunk on December 26, 1916.
• Jean, schooner captured and sunk by SMS Geier on December 31, 1916.
• Asnieres, French barque captured and sunk on January 2, 1917.
• Staut, Norwegian bark captured and sunk by Geier January 3, 1917.
• Hudson Maru, Japanese steamer captured January 4, released January 12, 1917.
• Radnorshire, captured on January 7, 1917 and sunk the next day.
• Minieh, captured and sunk on January 9, 1917.
• Netherby Hall, captured and sunk on January 9, 1917.
• Brecknockshire, captured and sunk on February 15, 1917.
• French Prince, captured and sunk on February 16, 1917.
• Eddie, captured and sunk on February 16, 1917.
• Katherine, captured and sunk on February 23, 1917.
• Rhodanthe, captured and sunk on March 4, 1917.
• Esmeraldas, captured and sunk on March 10, 1917.
• Otaki, captured and sunk on March 10, 1917.
• Demeterton, captured and sunk on March 13, 1917.
• Governor, captured and sunk on March 14, 1917.


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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