Gary’s great uncle Francis Sulley who was nineteen years old at the time was captured off the SS Georgic, a British armed merchantman, yesterday one hundred years ago December 10, 1916. The ship was captured and sunk by the German surface raider, SMS Moewe (The Seagull). After he was captured, he and all the other able seamen taken off the Georgic were placed in the Moewe’s hold. The Moewe before the war had been a banana boat and had been called the Pungo, and transported fruit from the German African colonies to Germany. The officers of the ship were put in cabins aboard the Moewe. They were to stay in the hull until December 13. More in the next post.
Life imitates art. Dora was imprisoned aboard the Lusitania until it was torpedoed on May 7, 1915.
Model of the SMS Mowe