The Sea Devil: The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail
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Overview
In 1916, a three-masted windjammer bearing Norwegian colours sailed out of a quiet anchorage in Germany, loaded with cargo and apparently bound for Australia. Her true mission was quite different.
The ship was, in fact, the SMS Seeadler, commanded by swashbuckling German aristocrat Felix von Luckner. Over an epic voyage, he used cunning and deception to destroy fourteen merchant ships, all the while evading the utterly foxed and infuriated British Admiralty in a daring game of cat and mouse.
This rip-roaring World War I story depicts a life of espionage, counterespionage and piracy of the most gentlemanly kind.
Swashbuckling adventure and lashings of champagne: this classic war story is far removed from life in the trenches. Tasked with destroying as many British merchant ships as possible, German aristocrat Felix von Luckner and his ship the Seeadler succeeded in spectacular fashion, taking 14 British vessels with the loss of only one life, in between hosting lavish parties for their prisoners and evading the British Admiralty in a daring game of cat and mouse.
A rip-roaring, swashbuckling story of espionage, counterespionage and piracy of the most gentlemanly kind
This book taps into the huge interest in World War One during the 100 year anniversary, but in a refreshingly light style.
Publication coincides with the centenary of von Luckner’s capture.
“Excellently written, with a good eye for drama and a passion for ships, Jefferson carries the reader on a swashbuckling tale that sets the German Navy in the unaccustomed role of hero.”
- Title: The Sea Devil: The Adventures of Count Felix von Luckner, the Last Raider under Sail
- Author: Sam Jefferson
- Publisher: Osprey Publishing
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2024
- Pages: 256
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9781472827906, 1472827902
- Resource ID: LLS:9781472827906
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2025-04-22T14:04:49Z
Sam Jefferson is a journalist and maritime historian, and is one of the leading authorities on the clipper ship era. He is a former Deputy Editor of Sailing Today, and writes regularly for Classic Boat, Sailing Today and Traditional Boats and Tall Ships. He is the author of Clipper Ships and the Golden Age of Sail, Sea Fever, and Gordon Bennett and the First Yacht Race Across the Atlantic, all published by Bloomsbury.