The Capital American (Oklahoma City, Okla.), Vol. 6, No. 28, Ed. 1 Friday, July 12, 1929 Page: 7 of 8
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Count Luckner tells of being ordered to
take command cd a sailing vessel in 1911
to run the British blockade The vessel
was armed and carried crew of sixty
It was disguised so that its real nature
could not be discovered except by most
complete examination It was planned
that the crew were to be disguised as
Norwegians Luckner could speak Nor
wegisin fluently The members of the crew
were thoroughly drilled in the parts they
were to play and on a pitch-dark night in
November the Seeadler slipped out of the
mouth of the Weser into the North Sea
CHAPTER II—Continued
One of the mechanics' helpers
Schmidt by name I had taken for a
principal role in our strategy He
was slender beardless and of delicate
appearance and could pass well
enough in woman's clothes Norwe-
gian skippers often take their wives
with them on their voyages The cap-
tain's wife aboard the false Maleta
would seem natural and tend to dis-
arm suspicion and besides British
naval officers are always courteous
and considerate toward women In
the presence of the captain's wife a
prize officer who might board us would
be more obliging toward us all We
had a blonde wig for Schmidt and
an outfit of women's clothes We took
great pains In schooling him to play
the part of the captain's wife correct-
ly One difficulty was his big feet
There was unfortunately no way to
make them smaller so we arranged
that the captain's wife should be
slightly ill and remain seated during
any possible search and have a rug
thrown over her feet to keep them
warm The other difficulty was
Schmidt's voice It was too deep and
be knew no Norwegian Well the cap-
tain's wife can't talk because she has
an awful toothache A wad of cotton
stuffed into Schmidt's cheek and there
was the swelling Be did know enough
English to say "all right" We trained
him to say a high-pitched "all right"
something like a woman with a tooth-
ache Except for that phrase he was
to keep his mouth shut We had a
large photograph made of Schmidt in
his costume signed It "thy loving Jo
sephine" and hung it in my cabin
Now the Britishers could compare the
photograph of the captain's wife with
the lady in person So from now on
poor Schmidt's name was "Josefeena"
as the Norwegians pronounce IL"
We were ready to sail when by Joe
what comes but a telegram from the
kaiser's aide I am to report imme-
diately direct to his majesty I guessed
what was up I had gone into the
navy from the mercantile marine in-
stead of 'through the usual cadet route
I had beena common qrdinary sailor
and this had aroused a lot of antag-
onism in naval circles There had been
jealousy about my getting an Inde-
pendent comntand—higitest of all na-
val honors So attempts were being
made to have my assignment annulled
Even to appear in the imperial pres-
ence was a trying ordeal for'most
cers Many took refuge in rigid "at-
tention" Well I had never quite got
used to high-class manners at sea and
the ramrod "attention" left me more
embarrassed than otherwise Even In
the emperor's presence I kept the
same brusque manner of an old-time
seaman that was natural to me
The kaiser spoke bluntly
"Well Lackner at the admiralty
they now tell me it Is madness to at-
tempt the blockade with a sailing ship
What do you think?"
"Well your majesty It our adult-
ratty says int impossible and Mica-
lolls then I'm' sure IL can be done
I replied "For the British admiralty
will think it impossible also They
won't be on the lookout for anything
so absurd as a raider disguised as a
harmless old sailing ship"
The emperor looked at me with a
frown and then his face relaxed into
a smile
"You are right luckner Go ahead!
And may the hand of the Almighty
be at your helm"
I knew now that there would be no
more official interference The true
Millets was now due to sail in a day
so we made ready to pull up anchor
Then a wireless came from the admi-
ralty: "Wait till the Deutschland makes
port"
Our giant merchant submarine the
Deutschland was on her way home
from her famous transatlantic cruise
to America In an attempt to cut her
off the British had set a double watch
So the Seeadier would have to slip
past twice as many cruisers and de
stroyers as otherwise I still hoped
that If only detained a day or so we
might yet be able to slip across the
North Sea ahead of the Ma feta But
we lay there for three and a half
weeks and the sad news came that
the real Ma !eta had sailed and passed
through the blockade If we now at-
tempted to use her name and a search
nerd boarded us the Jig would be up
So we hurriedly examined Lloyd's
Register in the hope of finding anoth-
er Norwegian ship thlit might corre-
spond to us We picked out one
called the Carmoe We had no Idea
where she was but hoped she might
be insome distant port unbeknown to
the wary British It was a long
chance but we could think of nothing
better ' Now we had to change our
ship front the Maleta to the Carmoe
Paint out one name and substituting
another was easy enough but chang-
ing all our ship's papers was far more
difficult But with much use of chem-
ical eraser we finally accomplished it
and we had papers that would pass If
the visibility was not too bright dur-
ing the search Then when we were
all set again we picked up a copy of
a Norwegian commercial paper and
found that the real Carmoe had just
been seized by the British and taken
to Kirkwall for examination
Now If you haven't any luck you
must go and get some! All you have
to do is know bow to do that and
you will be a great success at sea or
anywhere I
So away with Lloyd's Register!
Let's take life's register and name our
sea eagle after the girl of my heart
Surely she will bring us luck So out
with the paint and on with another
new name—the name of my sweet-
heart Irma
In that name was concentrated most
of the beauty that I had found In life
It symbolized strange moments of
beauty that had crossed my path dur-
ing the most trying days I bad so far
known It seemed to be a lovely
silken thread that had run through
the years since that first voyage when
as a miserable cabin boy I sailed to
Australia on that Russian tramp
of course there was no such name
as Irma listed with Lloyd's and all
any British officer would have to do
would be to consult his register and
the Jig would be up But somehow
I had a premonition that the name
Irma would bring us through
When we applied eraser and ink to
our shipping papers arid wrote in the
nameof Irma—disaster Two erasures
were too much The ink blotted If
we Shou 1 d be stupid enough to take
the British for fools then we our-
selves would he the real fools Where
was our luck now? Fate seemed to
he against us hut I had no intention
of giving up Calling the carpenter I
said:
"Come on Chips I am going to
make you admiral of the day Get the
az and smash nil the huIrs-eyes win-
dows portholes and everything"
Poor Chips! lie thought I had gone
oft my head hut he obeyed The
smashing began
"Bo's'n" I called "half a dozen men
with buckets of sea water! prow It
around drench everything"
And now the water flew in the call
Ins in the drawers of chests in the
officers' bunks all over my Norwegian
library water everywhere I took my
shipping papers and put each page be-
tween sheets of wet blotting paper so
that not only the name of Irma and
the other entries we had changed were
blotted but every line I even 'soused
the log book in a bucket of water'
Then I called the carpenter again
"Nov repair everything you have
smashed Chips Nail everything"
lie hammered planks over the
smashed portholes and hull's-eyes and
put the smashed chairs together as
well as he could
Now if the Britisher came aboard
he would say:
"By Joe captain you must have had
a hard blow to get knocked Omit like
this"
And I would growl "Yes by Joe ev-
rIthing Is drenched even ray papers"
Two days later a southwest wind
sprang up The moment was et hand
To go raiding in a sailing s!ip and
that sailing ship with the name of
Irma painted on her bows—till It
seemed more like a dream than like
setting out on H real adventure It
seemed as though all the events of my
life had been designed to converge' to
this one glorious point 'Our one linty
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Difficulties of Life Have Their Purposes
Very rare are those who have al-
ways had their every wish fulfilled
or forestalled but even these thould
not be envied
Man Is not made to live In per-
petual sunshine and would very Boon
tire of having all he desires with-
out having to wait and work for the
materialization of his longings The
greater the ease of ottalning what be
wants—the Bonner It would pelt upon
him
Life's diMculties and prolonged
trials says the London Chronicle are
a test of character If we bad no dif
flculties to overcome and ow patience
were not tried we might continue to
exist—but our claim to be called
"men" and "women" would be slen-
der Though we often groan under its
weight we should "respect the bur-
den" and thus retain our cheerfulness
and serenity 1
Tiaras Cardinal Points
The three great essentials te achieve
anything worth while are hard work
sticktoltiveness and common sense—
Edison
dred-and-seventy-foot mast s creaked
Our nine thousand square feet of Bali
bellowed before the wind We mile0
north under a full spread
CHAPTER III
Running the British Blockade
Sails bellied and motor humming we
parted the waves and left a path ot
foam in our wake On deck we de
voted all our spare time to more dress
rehearsals
Me boys took a particutar relish in
putting me through the "third degree"
as you call IL One of them played
the part of a British search officer
"Now Captain what is the name
of your ship?" he bellowed
"She is the Irma and as good a full-
rigged ship as ever crossed the North
sea"
"Have you any brothers and sisters
Captain?"
"Oh yes a lot of them There are
Olga Ingaborg and Oscar who live in
ilatfjelddalen Dagmar and Chris-
tian are seamen like myself Lars
runs a salmon cannery in British
Columbia Gustaf and Tor are lumber-
men somewhere in America And then
we have another brother Eric whom
we've lost track of"
While trying to make the narrow
channel of Norderaue we hit a sand
bank The ship creaked and the
masts trembled but somehow we
rushed across—further proof that the
Scots of Glasgow still know how to
turn out a sturdy clipper ship
At ten o'clock we passed the Horns
reef and continued along the Danish
coast At eight bells we hoped to
reach the Skagerrak and 'then turn
her west to give the enemy the impres-
sion that we had come from a Scan-
dinavian port Shortly before day-
break the wind shifted abruptly from
southwest to due north Against such
a stiff breeze we could make little
headway On our right were the low
rocky fjords and reefs along the coast
of Ringlijobing and Thisted To the
left were British mine fields We
didn't dare run into a Danish harbor
for fear of being interned So we
mnst either turn back or take a chance
on slipping through the mine fields
It is always possible to sail through a
mine field—provided you sail under a
lucky star with a guardian angel at
the helm
"Hard aport We'll risk It boys"
With a full spread of sail we turned
straight- west
Now a tacking ship heels over The
more sail you carry the more she lays
over and the less water she draws
That was our chance The mines were
nearly always planted several feet
under water just out of sight Per-
haps we could slide right over them
Lifeboats were lowered and every
man adjusted his Ilfebeit Before the
mast the sailors aft the captain
But we 'all kept to the foreship We
were lower aft than fore and if a
mine went off it probably would be
aft But our luck held and we got
through in safety
Our course lay around the northern
end of Scotland along the usual ship
ping route from Norway to the At
lantic To he sure we could have
hugged the Norwegian coast but the
blockade was even tighter there That
was the naturel course for oneof our
raiding armored cruisers to take so if
she were beaded off by Beatty she
could turn quickly into a neutral Nor'
wegian port and accept internment
rather than capture We didn't even
keep to the middle of the North Sea
hut with the idea that our one path
of safety lay right under John Bull's
nose we followed the coast of Eng-
land and Scotland
There were three lines of the block-
ade The first lay across the North
Sea from the Scottish to the Danish
coast We must run this one first
The wind grew stronger The bar
ometer fell Anyone on the North Sea
on the twenty-third of December 1916
will remember the hurricane that
came It was one of the worst storms
of years The wind was cyclonic in
force and lashed the shallow North
Sea itit0 a cauldron Running before
it we carried every foot of sail we
dared every stitch except the royals
and gallantsalls and smaller staysails
We could take chances
We sped right through the first line
of the blockade without sighting a
ship and as though the whole North
Sea were ours Instead of going up
the barometer continued to fail Loud
er roared the storm and more and
more mountainous became the waves
We passed the second tine of the
blockade Still not a ship in sight
Midnight grew near and still that
wild heaven-sent hurricane kept at
Ve ran before it like a frightened
bird fearing every minute that our
sails and masts would go overboard
Ve lay on the yards and scanned the
horizon with our glasses Half-past
eleven I We were in the midst of the
blockade line Where were the cruis-
ers and destroyers? All we could hear
was the whistling of the wind and the
rushing of the water beneath our
bows All we could see the blackness
of the night Twelve o'clock and still
no sign of the enemy Even our bin
nacle and compass lights were out for
any ray of light might betray us By
one o'clock we knew we bad passed
the last line
The British warned by the falling
barometer had taken their guard
ships to shelter In the lee of the is-
lands There was nothing else for
them to do In such a storm Even if
they saw a ship It would be hopeless
to try to board her And if Beatty's
fleet had kept to sea there would have
been grave danger of their running one
another down We couldn't help re
calling the old saying that It In In
deed an Ill wind that blows no one
any good
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