Ahoy - Mac's Web Log-Marauders of the Sea, German Armed Merchant Raiders During World War I-Tables

Table 1

Ships Sunk or Captured by Wolf

Ship�s Name	Port of Registry	Date Sunk or Captured	Gross Registered Tonnage
Beluga	No details in Lloyd's registry	Sunk 11 July 1917	No details available
Dee	Port Louis	Sunk 31 March 1917	1169
Encore	San Francisco	Sunk 13 July 1917	651
Hitachi Maru	Tokyo	Sunk 13 July 1917	6716
John H. Kirby	New Orleans	Sunk November 1917	1395
Jumna	London	Sunk 4 March 1917	4152
Marechal Davout	Nantes	Sunk 5 December 1917	2192
Matunga	Sydney	Sunk 26 August 1917	1618
Storbror	Christiansand	Sunk 4 January 1916	2050
Wairuna	London	Captured 2 June 1917 Sunk 17 June 1917	3947
Winslow	San Francisco	Captured 16 January 1917 Sunk 22 June 1917	567
Wordsworth	London	Sunk18 March 1917	3509
Igotz Mendi	Bilbao	Captured 10 November 1917 Taken to Germany Ran aground on Danish coast 24 February 1918 Refloated, repaired, returned to Spain 1919	4648
Turretella	London	Captured 27 February Renamed Iltis Scuttled 5 March 1917	5528

Number of Ships Sunk or Captured	Total Tonnage
13	38,142
1 (no details of Registration)	Unknown

Table 2

Ships Sunk or Damaged from Mines laid by Wolf

Ship�s Name	Mined	Date	Gross Registered Tonnage
Matheran	Off Capetown and Cape Agulha	26 January 1917	7654
Tundareus*	Off Capetown and Cape Agulha	6 February 1917	11,000
City of Athens	Off Capetown and Cape Agulha	19 August 1917	5604
Bhamo*	Off Capetown and Cape Agulha	17 February 1917	5344
Worcestershire	Off Colombo	21 February 1917	7174
Perseus	Off Colombo	21 February 1817	6728
Croxeth Hall	Off Bombay	6 June 1917	5872
City of Exeter*	Off Bombay	6 June 1917	9372
Mongolia	Off Bombay	23 June 1917	9505
Cumberland	Tasman Sea	6 July 1917	9000
Port Kembla	Tasman Sea	18 September 1917	5000
Wimmera	Tasman Sea	July 1917	3500

* Reached Port after being damaged

Number of Ships Sunk or Damages	Total Tonnage
13	80,594

Table 3

Ships Sunk or Captured by Seeadler

Ship�s Name	Port of Registry	Date Sunk or Captured	Gross Registered Tonnage
A B Johnson	San Francisco	Sunk 14 June 1917	529
Antonin	Dunkerque	Sunk February 1917	3071
British Yeoman	San Francisco	Sunk February 26 1917	1953
Beunos Ayres	Napoli	Sunk 9 February 1917	1811
Charles Gounod	Nantes	Sunk 21 January 1917	2199
Dupleix	Nantes	Sunk 5 March 1917	2206
Gladys Royale	Sunderland	Sunk 9 January 1917	3268
Horngarth	Cardiff	Sunk 11 March 1917	3609
La Rochefoulauld	Nantes	Sunk 25 February 1917	2200
Lundy Island	West Hartlepool	Sunk 10 March 1917	3095
Manila	San Francisco	Sunk 8 July 1917	731
Perce	Canadian Ship Not listed in Lloyd's Registry	Sunk 24 January 1917	364
Pinmore	Greenock	19 February 1917	2431
R C Slade	San Francisco	15 June 1917	673
Cambronne	Dunkerque	Captured 21 March 1917 Released to carry prisoners to Rio de Janeiro	1863

Number of Ships Sunk or Captured	Total Tonnage
14	30,003

Table 4

Ships Sunk or Captured by Moewe

Ship�s Name	Port of Registry	Date Sunk or Captured	Gross Registered Tonnage
Ariadne	London	Sunk 15 January 1916	3055
Asnieres	La Havre	Sunk 2 January 1915	3103
Author	Loverpool	Sunk 13 January 1916	3496
Brecknockshire	Belfast	Sunk 15 February 1917	8522
Cambrian Range	Liverpool	Sunk 9 December 1916	4234
Clan Mactavish	Glasgow	Sunk 16 January 1916	5816
Corbridge	Cardiff	Sunk 30 January 1916	3687
Demeterion	New Castle on Tyne	Sunk 13 March 1917	6048
Dramitist	Liverpool	Sunk 18 December 1916	5415
Duchess of Cornwall	St, Johns Newfoundland	Sunk 6 December 1914	152
Eddie	Whitby	Sunk 17 February 1917	2652
Edinburgh	Glasgow	Sunk 20 January 1916	1473
Esmeraldas	Liverpool	Sunk 10 March 1917	4678
Farrington	Sunderland	Sunk 11 January 1916	3146
Flamenco	Liverpool	Sunk 6 February 1916	4629
French Prince	New Castle on Tyne	Sunk 16 February 1916	4766
Georgic	Sunderland	Sunk 19 December 1916	10007
Governor	Liverpool	Sunk 14 March 1917	5524
Horace	Liverpool	Sunk 9 February 1916	3335
Katherine	West Hartlepool	Sunk 13 February 1917	2926
King George	Glasgow	Sunk 9 December 1916	3852
Luxemberg	Antwert	Sunk 5 February 1916	4322
Maroni	Le Harve	Sunk 23 February 1916	3106
Mimieh	London	Sunk 9 January 1914	2890
Mont Temple	Liverpool	Sunk 6 December 1916	9792
Nantes	Nantes	Sunk 25 December1916	2679
Netherby Hall	Liverpool	Sunk 09 January 1917	4461
Otaki	Plymouth	Sunk 10 March 1917	9575
Radnorshire	London	Sunk 7 January 1917	4310
Rhodanthe	London	Sunk 4 March 1917	3061
Saxon Prince	Newcastle on Tyne	Sunk 25 February 1916	3471
Trader	London	Sunk 13 January 1916	3608
Unknown Norwegian Ship	Unknown	Sunk 5 December 1916	No details
Voltaire	Liverpool	Sunk 2 December 1916	8616
Westburn	Sunderland	Sunk 23 February 1916	3300
Appam	Liverpool	Captured 15 January 1916 Used to land prisoners at Newport News	7781
Hudson Maru	Kobe	Captured 2 January 1917 Released 19 January 1917	3798
Yarrowdale	Glasgow	Captured 11 December 1916 Sent back to Germany and converted to Raider Leopard	4652
St Theodore	Liverpool	Captured 12 December 1916 Converted to Tender/Raider Geier	4992

Number of Ships Sunk or Captured	Total Tonnage
38*	174,905
* Included 1 unknown Norwegian ship	No details available

Table 5

Battleship sunk by mines laid by Moewe

King Edward VII, mined on 6 January 1915 in Pentland Firth off the North of Scotland

Length: 456 feet

Beam 78 feet

Draught: 27 feet

Displacement full load: 16,610 tons

Maximum speed: 19 knots

Protection: Mainside belt, up to 9 inches of steel. Turrets, up to 12 inches of steel

Oil/Coal capacity: 40 tons of oil, 2150 tons of coal

Horsepower: 18,300

Range at 17.5 knots: 2000 nautical miles

Armament:

4 by 12 inch
4 by 9.2 inch
10 by 6 inch
15 by 12 pounder
Torpedoes: 4 by 18 inch

Ships Company 777

Table 6

**Major number of ships lost from Port of Registry in rank order			**Major tonnage lost from Port of Registry in rank order
Registry Port	Ships lost	Rank order	Tonnage lost	Rank order
Liverpool	12	1	67,348	1
London	9	2	34,060	2
Nantes	5	Equal 3	11,476	4
San Francisco	5	Equal 3	9,557	6
Sunderland	4	4	19,721	3
Glasgow	3	5	9,997	5

next chapter (Bibliography)
back to Marauders index