Geier (freighter)

History

United Kingdom
Name:	Saint Théodore
Owner:	Brit. & Foreign. S.S. Co.
Port of registry:	Liverpool
Builder:	W. Hamilton & Co., Glasgow
Laid down:	1913
Launched:	25 April 1913
Fate:	taken by SMS Möwe and scuttled on 14 February 1917
German Empire
Name:	German: Geier
Namesake:	Vulture
Acquired:	12 December 1916 (taken as prize)
Commissioned:	28 December 1916
Fate:	scuttled on 14 February 1917
General characteristics
Type:	auxiliary cruiser (German: (Hilfskreuzer)
Tonnage:	4,992 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement:	9,700 long tons (9,856 t)
Length:	127.2 m (417 ft 4 in)
Beam:	15.85 m (52 ft 0 in)
Height:	8.25 m (27 ft 1 in)
Draught:	6.4 m (21 ft)
Decks:	2
Propulsion:	1,800 ihp (1,300 kW) steam engine
Speed:	12.6 knots (23.3 km/h; 14.5 mph)
Crew:	As German auxiliary cruiser: 2 officers, 46 enlisted
Armament:	As German auxiliary cruiser: 2 × 5.2 cm (2.0 in) guns

Geier was a British cargo ship named Saint Théodore that was captured by the German commerce raider Möwe in the North Atlantic Ocean at 39°30′N 17°30′W / 39.500°N 17.500°W / 39.500; -17.500 on 12 December 1916. First put into Imperial German Navy service as an auxiliary ship on 14 December 1916, Geier was commissioned as an auxiliary cruiser (German: Hilfskreuzer) on 28 December and operated in the South Atlantic Ocean until 14 February 1917, when she was scuttled near Ilha da Trindade.^[1]

References

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in December 1916

Shipwrecks	1 Dec: HMS E37 3 Dec: Kanguroo 6 Dec: Mount Temple, SM UC-19 7 Dec: SM UB-46 10 Dec: Georgic 11 Dec: Regina Margherita 13 Dec: SM UB-29 14 Dec: Russian 15 Dec: Powhatan 21 Dec: HMS Hoste, Murex 22 Dec: HMS E30 27 Dec: Gaulois 29 Dec: Alondra

Other incidents	7 Dec: Keltier 12 Dec: Saint Théodore 16 Dec: USS H-3

1915 1916 1917 November 1916 January 1917

Shipwrecks and maritime incidents in February 1917

Shipwrecks	1 Feb: HM Armed Smack Inverlyon 2 Feb: Elikon 7 Feb: California, Saint Ninian 8 Feb: HMS Ghurka; SM UC-39, SM UC-46 9 Feb: Mantola 14 Feb: SMS Geier 15 Feb: Minas 17 Feb: Athos, SM U-83 19 Feb: SM UC-18 21 Feb: HMS Mendi 22 Feb: Ajax 23 Feb: SM UC-32 25 Feb: Laconia

Other incidents	8 Feb: Mantola 17 Feb: HMS Farnborough 18 Feb: HMATT Berrima

1916 1917 1918 January 1917 March 1917

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