INTRODUCTION:

THE STORY OF THE EMDEN By J. G. LOCKHART
"THE fame of the Emden will endure when many greater and more imposing ships are on the scrap-heap, their companies scattered, and their stories forgotten. Even in the palmy days of privateering there was little to surpass her record. For three months she ranged the seas, hunted with untiring zest by the cruisers of three great naval Powers, the hand of almost every man against her. In that period she captured some twenty merchantmen ; destroyed cargoes to the value of many million pounds ; sank a Russian cruiser and a French destroyer; spread panic throughout the population of India ; suspended sailings, disorganised convoys and sent up insurance rates in those most critical early weeks of the war. Having achieved all this with a minimum loss of life to non-combatants, she finally went down gloriously, before an adversary of far greater strength.

The Emden was a German light cruiser of 3,593 tons, with a speed on trial of twenty-four knots . . . . . . . ."

Contents

INTRODUCTION: THE STORY OF THE " EMDEN," BY J. G. LOCKHART
I. KEELING ISLAND
II. THE " AYESHA "
III. ON BOARD
IV. A FINE DAY ON BOARD
V. AN UNEASY DAY
VI. PADANG
VII. THE MEETING WITH THE " CHOISING "
VIII. THE PASSING OF THE " AYESHA " .
IX. FROM PERIM TO HODEIDA
X. ON TO SANAA
XI. SHIPWRECK
XII. THE ATTACK
XIII. TO THE RAILWAY
XIV. HOMEWARD BOUND
APPENDIX : THE VISIT OF THE " EMDEN " TO COCOS KEELING, BY PHIL ANDERE

Illustrations

KAPITANLEUTNANT VON MUCKE
THE EMDEN
H.M.A.S. SYDNEY .
THE WRECKED WIRELESS MAST
THE RAIDERS IN COUNCIL
THE ARRIVAL OF THE BRITISH
THE AYESHA
KAPITANLEUTNANT VON MUCKE
HODEIDA
CROSSING THE DESERT

Maps

FROM COCOS KEELING TO CONSTANTINOPLE
ARABIA

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