Designed from the first for easy conversion into an armed commerce raider, the vessel spent less than a week at the Imperial German Navy base at Tsingtao, China, while being refitted and recrewed ...

Eighty German sailors died in the encounter, while more than 300 were rescued and their accounts of the battle are the basis of the Australian navy's official record.

The United States was still 3,000 miles and two years away from the horrors of the Great War in Europe during the spring of 1915. But when an audacious German commerce raider eluded its pursuers an… ...