Hello Andy
Thx for your question. I’ll give it a try.
Best regards
René

A week after we put to sea, action began. A beautiful, white, English Full Rigger, Conway Castle, had come in our way. It was stopped with a shot across the bows, her crew taken on board the Dresden and the beautiful ship sunk with a quick shot. It sank with all sails up before we had come very far.

Its captain swore and cursed, for in every port the Englishmen had spread the rumour, that Dresden had been sunk in the Falklands, and that the sea was completely liberated from the German warships.

A few days later we stopped at a dirty Peruvian steamer, whose crew ran around on the deck like flies in a bottle, when we went alongside their ship.

They thought they saw a phantom ship, for they too had received the news that Dresden was lying on the bottom of the sea. They cried and yelled during maneuvers, and so did the pig, they had on board. We didn’t do the neutral ship any harm, but only sent the crew of the Conway Castle on board.

We had all grown fond of the captioned Englishmen, and we parted in a nice and polite manner. Before they went in the boats, they cheered a hearty hooray for Dresden’s crew, and we responded for our guests, who had lost a beautiful ship, but won a strange experience.