British cargo ship captured by the German Empire
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History |
United Kingdom |
Name | Saint Théodore |
Owner | Brit. & Foreign. S.S. Co. |
Port of registry | Liverpool |
Builder | W. Hamilton & Co., Glasgow |
Laid down | 1913 |
Launched | 25 April 1913 |
Fate | Captured by SMS Möwe and scuttled on 14 February 1917 |
German Empire |
Name | ‹See Tfd›German: Geier |
Namesake | Vulture |
Acquired | 12 December 1916 (taken as prize) |
Commissioned | 28 December 1916 |
Fate | scuttled on 14 February 1917 |
General characteristics |
Type | |
Tonnage | 4,992 gross register tons (GRT) |
Displacement | 9,700 long tons (9,856 t) |
Length | 127.2 m (417 ft 4 in) |
Beam | 15.85 m (52 ft 0 in) |
Height | 8.25 m (27 ft 1 in) |
Draught | 6.4 m (21 ft) |
Decks | 2 |
Propulsion | 1,800 ihp (1,300 kW) steam engine |
Speed | 12.6 knots (23.3 km/h; 14.5 mph) |
Crew |
- As German auxiliary cruiser:
- 2 officers, 46 enlisted
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Geier was a British cargo ship named Saint Théodore that was captured by the German commerce raider Möwe in the North Atlantic Ocean at 39°30′N 17°30′W / 39.500°N 17.500°W / 39.500; -17.500 on 12 December 1916. First put into Imperial German Navy service as an auxiliary ship on 14 December 1916, Geier was commissioned as an auxiliary cruiser (‹See Tfd›German: Hilfskreuzer) on 28 December and operated in the South Atlantic Ocean until 14 February 1917, when she was scuttled near Ilha da Trindade.[1]
21°01′S 31°49′W / 21.017°S 31.817°W / -21.017; -31.817
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