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Five Months on a German Raider / Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the 'Wolf'

Chapter 47: MR. STERLING STICKS IT OUT
By Frederic George Trayes
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An account recounts the author's ordeal after his passenger steamer is intercepted and shelled by an armed raider, forcing passengers into lifeboats and captivity. He describes conditions aboard the raider and later aboard a captured prize used to hold prisoners, the deliberate sinking of seized vessels, daily routines and dangers at sea, and efforts to maintain morale, including a Christmas aboard the prize. The narrative follows rumor, planning, and a perilous coastal approach that ends with shipwreck, rescue by local lifesavers, internment ashore, and the author's eventual release.

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