ABSTRACT
Kapitan-Leutnant Graf von Luckner. He commanded the German raider Seeadler in an amazingly daring and successful voyage, 1916-17.
Von Luckner came from a landed family, but ran away to sea, signing on before the mast, in 1897. He made several voyages in sail, to Australia and North America, and passed his Mate’s exam in 1903. He made a voyage as Mate of the Petropolis, but then settled down to run a navigation school.
