Name Saint Théodore Laid down 1913 Length 127 m | Port of registry Liverpool Launched 25 April 1913 Draft 6.4 m | |
Owner Brit. & Foreign. S.S. Co. Builder W. Hamilton & Co., Glasgow Fate taken by SMS Möwe and scuttled on 14 February 1917 | ||
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 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.
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