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WW1 - 1914-1918
" Looks of War photographers "
" Regards de photographes de Guerre"
9000 photos
438 pages
PRINZ
EITEL FRIEDRICH
GERMAN
MERCHANT RAIDER
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.;
CROWDED WITH CREWS OF CAPTURED SHIPS
1915
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
[close up]
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.;
CROWDED WITH CREWS OF CAPTURED SHIPS
1915
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
De retour de Tientsin, la canonnière est à Tsingtau le 4 juillet 1914 et reçoit l'ordre de se rendre sur le fleuve Yang-Tsé,
mais elle retourne au point de départ à cause de la montée des périls.
Au début d'août, le paquebot allemand de la Norddeutscher Lloyd, le Prinz Eitel Friedrich, est transformé en croiseur auxiliaire
et reçoit pour cela les armes et les munitions des canonnières SMS Tiger et SMS Luchs, ainsi qu'une partie de leur équipage.
Le korvettenkapitän Thierichens, qui commande la Luchs, prend alors le commandement du Prinz Eitel Friedrich.
Finalement, la canonnière se saborde dans la nuit du 28 au 29 septembre 1914, sur ordre du gouverneur Meyer-Waldeck,
pendant le siège de la colonie allemande, alors que les troupes japonaises s'apprêtent à bombarder la ville deux jours plus tard.
Les autres bâtiments de la marine allemande, la SMS Iltis, la SMS Luchs et la vieille SMS Cormoran sont coulées aussi en même temps,
afin de ne pas tomber en mains ennemies.
Seule la SMS Jaguar reste en service, avant de couler le soir de la capitulation, le 7 novembre 1914.
La SMS Luchs est à quai à Hong Kong en juillet 1914
et la montée des périls la fait revenir à Tsingtao.
Elle croise dans la baie de Kiaou-Tchéou avec la canonnière SMS Jaguar
et le torpilleur SMS S90 pour en assurer la défense.
Au début d'août 1914,
le paquebot à vapeur Prinz Eitel Friedrich de la Norddeutscher Lloyd est armé et transformé en croiseur auxiliaire avec une partie de l'équipage de la SMS Luchs
et le commandant de bord de la canonnière,
le korvettenkapitän Thierichens en prend le commandement.
SMS Tiger
At Tsingtao Prinz Eitel Friedrich was equipped for her role as a commerce raider,
transferring the armaments and crews of the aging gunboats Luchs, and Tiger.
KK Max Therichens, of Luchs, took command.
She was commissioned on 5 August 1914 and sailed from Tsingtao the same day to join company with Admiral Graf von Spee and the German East Asia Squadron.
These were at Pagan in the Caroline Islands, and Prinz Eitel Friedrich arrived there on 12 August.
On 13 August she was detached for independent operations and with a remit to attack
and destroy allied commerce.
She sailed south to start this mission along the coast of Australia
In the following seven months she operated in the Pacific and South Atlantic,
sinking 11 vessels, mostly sailing ships, for a total of 33,423 gross register tons (GRT).
In March 1915, with her bunkers nearly empty and her engines worn out,
Prinz Eitel Friedrich headed for the neutral United States,
and on 11 March 1915 sailed into Newport News harbour, to be interned.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.;
CROWDED WITH CREWS OF CAPTURED SHIPS
1915
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.;
CROWDED WITH CREWS OF CAPTURED SHIPS
1915
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.;
CROWDED WITH CREWS OF CAPTURED SHIPS
1915
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.;
CROWDED WITH CREWS OF CAPTURED SHIPS
1915
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.;
CROWDED WITH CREWS OF CAPTURED SHIPS
1915
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.;
CROWDED WITH CREWS OF CAPTURED SHIPS
1915
Harris & Ewing, photographer
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.; THE SHIP
Harris & Ewing, photographer
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.; THE SHIP
Harris & Ewing, photographer
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.; THE SHIP
Harris & Ewing, photographer
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.; IN DRY DOCK
Harris & Ewing, photographer
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.; SCENES ON DECK, ETC
Harris & Ewing, photographer
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
UNITED STATES NAVY.
EITEL FRIEDRICH, GERMAN SHIP TAKEN OVER BY U.S.; SCENES ON DECK, ETC
Harris & Ewing, photographer
1915
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C.
Eitel Friedrich.
United States Navy.
German ship taken over by U.S. survivors of crews and passengers of ships
captured by Eitel Friedrich]
Harris & Ewing, photographer
between 1915 and 1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Eitel Friedrich.
United States Navy.
German ship taken over by U.S. survivors of crews and passengers of ships
captured by Eitel Friedrich]
Harris & Ewing, photographer
between 1915 and 1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Eitel Friedrich.
United States Navy.
German ship taken over by U.S. survivors of crews and passengers of ships
captured by Eitel Friedrich]
Harris & Ewing, photographer
between 1915 and 1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Eitel Friedrich.
United States Navy.
German ship taken over by U.S. survivors of crews and passengers of ships
captured by Eitel Friedrich]
Harris & Ewing, photographer
between 1915 and 1917
Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C
Victims of the Prinz Eitel Friedrich
Date
05.12.1914
11.12.1914
12.12.1914
26.01.1915
27.01.1915
27.01.1915
28.01.1915
12.02.1915
18.02.1915
19.02.1915
20.02.1915
Ship
Charcas
Jean
Kidalton
Isabel Browne
Pierre Loti
William P Frye
Jacobsen
Invercoe
Mary Ada Short
Floride
Willerby
Type
Freighter
Sailing ship
Sailing ship
Sailing ship
Sailing ship
Sailing ship
Sailing ship
Sailing ship
Sailing ship
Freighter
Freighter
Nationality
British
French
British
Russian
French
American
French
British
British
French
British
Tonnage GRT
5,067
2,207
1,784
1,315
2,196
3,374
2,195
1,421
3,605
6,629
3,630
Fate
Sunk
Retained as collier - Scuttled 31.12.14
Sunk
Sunk
Sunk
Sunk
Sunk
Sunk
Sunk
Sunk
Sunk
Titre 2
Charcas
Jean
Kidalton
Pierre Loti
William P. Frye
Invercoe
