More drift alert!

There may be even more confusion about which ship is which, Teribus! The sailing raider I was thinking about was the former Pass of Balmaha, captured by a German submarine in 1915 and sent home to Hamburg. She was then converted into the sailing commerce raider S.M.S. Seeadler (Sea Eagle), commanded by Count Felix von Luckner, and set sail December 21, 1916. Luckner was able to make several captures in the South Atlantic, narrowly avoided capture himself rounding Cape Horn, making 3 more captures in the South Pacific. Unfortunately for Luckner and his crew, they stopped for reprovisioning at the remote coral island of Mopeha, part of the Cook Islands, and came to grief as their ship was swept onto a reef by a tidal wave. All aboard survived the ship wreck but Luckner and some of his crew were captured later near Fiji as they tried to capture another boat. The rest of his crew on Mopeha were later able to capture a small French schooner that stopped by, and then escaped east to Chile. This information is drawn from THE CRUISE OF THE RAIDER WOLF by Roy Alexander, Appendix II.

Cheerily,
Charley Noble