Chapter VI: Appendix

During her fifteen months' cruise the _Wolf_ laid approximately five hundred mines and captured fourteen vessels, as follows:

1. _British tank s/s._ "TURITELLA," 7300 gross tons, Captain S.G. MEADOWS, captured on February 27, 1917, in the Indian Ocean, bound from Rangoon to Europe with a cargo of oil. The captain and officers were taken off this vessel and transferred to the _Wolf_. A crew of German officers and mine-men were put on board of her, under charge of Lieutenant-Commander BRANDES, ex-chief officer of the WOLF, and she was sent away as a mine layer, laying mines at BOMBAY and at CALCUTTA, and was afterwards captured at ADEN, while laying mines, by a British gun-boat; and her crew of Chinamen were sent back to China, while her German officers were taken prisoners.

2. _British s/s._ "JUMMA," 6050 gross tons, Captain SHAW WICKERMAN, bound from Torreirja, Spain, to Calcutta with a cargo of salt. Captured in the Indian Ocean, March 1st. After what coal and stores she had on board had been removed, she was bombed on the morning of March 3rd in latitude 8 degrees 9 minutes north and longitude 62 degrees 1 minute east.

3. _British s/s._ "WADSWORTH," of London, 3509 gross tons, built in 1915, Captain JOHN SHIELDS, captured on March 11th, in latitude 54 degrees 30 minutes north and longitude 67 degrees east. After taking off about fifteen tons of rice and ship's stores the vessel was bombed on the 18th. _Wadsworth_ was bound from Bassinia, India, to London with a cargo of rice, and was six days out from Colombo.

4. _Mauritius bark_ "DEE," 1200 tons, Captain RUUG, bound from Mauritius to Bundbury, Australia, in ballast, thirty-nine days out. Captured May 21st, 300 miles off the west coast of Australia. Crew of blacks and stores taken on board the _Wolf_ and the vessel immediately bombed.

5. _New Zealand s/s._ "WAIRUNA," of the Union S/S. Co. Line, of New Zealand, Captain JOHN SAUNDERS, with general cargo from Auckland to San Francisco. Captured May 21st off Sunday Island by seaplane. The _Wolf_ was lying behind Sunday Island cleaning and repairing boilers at the time of capture. The flying machine flew over the _Wairuna_ and dropped a message attached to a sandbag, saying to steer towards the _Wolf_ or the flying machine would drop bombs on her. Thus she was taken by the raider. After taking off some forty live sheep and ship's stores and about 900 tons of coal, she was sunk by one bomb and fifteen shells. While towing the _Wairuna_ to sea, _Wolf_ discovered the schooner _Winslow_.

6. _American schooner_ "WINSLOW," 566 gross tons, Captain TRUDGETT, bound from Sydney to Samoa, with general cargo. Captured off Sunday Island on June 7th by the seaplane while _Wolf_ was sinking the _Wairuna_. After removing ship's stores and some 450 tons of coal the _Winslow_ was sunk on June 21st by four bombs and thirty-nine shells, the old wooden box simply refusing to sink.

7. _American bark_ "BELUGA," of San Francisco, 590 gross tons, Captain CAMERON, bound from San Francisco to Sydney, Australia, with a cargo of benzine. Captured latitude south 26 degrees, on July 9th. After removing 300 cases of oil, the stores and boatswain's supplies, the _Beluga_ was set on fire on July 11th by gun fire, by the nineteenth shot.

8. _American schooner_ "ENCORE," 651 gross tons, Captain OLESON, bound from Columbia River to Sydney, Australia, with a load of lumber. Captured July 16th in latitude south 21 degrees and longitude east 169 degrees. After removing stores she was set on fire and left.

9. _Australian s/s._ "MATUNGA," of the Burns & Phillips Line, Captain DONALDSON, en route from Sydney to Rabul, New Guinea. Captured August 4th, about 122 miles southwest of Rabul. Both vessels proceeded from this point to Pirate's Cove, at the northernmost end of New Guinea, arriving there on August 10th. Transferred cargo to the _Wolf_, amounting to some 850 tons of coal and 350 tons of supplies; also prisoners (passengers), including two army medical corps officers and three military captains. On August 26th _Wolf_ proceeded to sea and sunk the _Matunga_ by three bombs, vessel sinking in six and one-half minutes. Full particulars of the _Matunga's_ cargo was picked up by the _Wolf_ in a wireless message to her consignees, giving a copy of her outward manifest, also all sailing dates from time to time by Burns & Phillips themselves.

10. _Japanese s/s._ "HITACHI MARU," of the N.Y.K. Co., 6558 gross tons, Captain KOKMOA, en route from Colombo to England, via African ports. Captured on September 26th off the Maldive Islands and proceeded to southernmost group of the Maldives, where 800 tons of bunker coal were transferred to the _Wolf_, also 250 tons of copper and tin, silk, tea, approximately 400 tons of rubber, further cocoanuts and hides. On October 7th both vessels proceeded in different directions, the _Wolf_ seeking for another vessel with coal while the _Hitachi_ loafed along in a general southeasterly direction. _Wolf_ picked up _Hitachi_ again on October 19th, forty-two miles west of the Chagos group. On October 20th both vessels arrived at the Chagos Islands and tied up together. Additional rubber and silk and remaining coal were transferred to the _Wolf_. On the morning of November 7th both vessels left Chagos and the _Hitachi_ was bombed.

11. _Spanish steamer_ "IGOTZ MENDI," of Bilboa, 4648 tons. Captured in the Indian Ocean November 10th, en route from Delagoa Bay to Colombo with a cargo of coal. This vessel was sent to Germany, but grounded off DENMARK.

12. _American bark_ "WILLIAM KIRBY," 1200 tons, of New York, Captain BLUM, from New York to Port Elizabeth, Africa, with a general cargo; captured on November 15th. Crew, provisions and stores were taken off and the vessel bombed on November 16th. She was captured 320 miles southeast of Port Elizabeth.

13. _French bark_ "MARECHAL DAVOUST," 1100 tons, from Delagoa Bay to France with a cargo of wheat. Captured on December 14th. This vessel was armed and equipped with wireless. Guns and provisions were transferred to the _Wolf_ and the vessel sunk on the 15th by bombs. Captured 130 miles southeast of the Cape of Good Hope.

14. _Norwegian bark_ "STOREBROR," 2000 tons, Captain MOLLER, bound for Europe from Montevideo in ballast. Captured on January 5th in latitude 18 degrees south and 27 degrees west. Crew, provisions and stores transferred to the _Wolf_ and vessel bombed.