Count Luckner, the Sea DevilLuckner, Felix, Graf von
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Count Luckner, the Sea Devil
Luckner, Felix, Graf von
Germany. Kriegsmarine; Luckner, Felix, Graf von, 1881-1966; Seeadler (Ship); World War, 1914-1918 -- Naval operations
(Note B, see page 209.) Author's note: Since the War, it has
developed that the Count was mistaken regarding the identity of this
cruiser. Instead of the _Kent_, she was the _Lancaster_, and her
commander was Captain Phillips, now of the British battleship _Queen
Elizabeth_. Recently an American newspaper man, Robert H. Davis of
the New York _Sun_, met him in the Mediterranean, loaned him a copy
of one of the early editions of this book, and asked him: "Is it
romance or truth?" "Quite accurate, I should say," replied Captain
Phillips, "and in accordance with the records."
* * *
(Note C, see page 216.) "Count Luckner is to be congratulated on
getting his ship through without being seen. Every effort was made
to intercept him.... Those messages came from the cruiser
_Lancaster_ and not from the _Kent_. I was commander of the
_Lancaster_. The raider must have passed within 200 miles of us on
the inside waters as we lay off the west coast of Chile," said
Captain Phillips of the British Navy.--New York _Sun_, May 24, 1928.
[Transcriber's note: several spelling variants have been preserved as
printed.]
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