PRISONER OF THE COUNT
I = r : where we are at anchor the island. looks very pretty with the fronds of the coconut trees against the skyline. I ‘have never been ashore on a South Sea Island» and am looking forward to my day of shore leave." _ That was what Fred Williams, of Brooklyn, New York, wrote in his log on August 1, 1917--and they were not far from qualifying as famous: _ last words. Fred Williams was then a _ prisoner on Count von Luckner’s famous | raider Seeadier. A day or two later he | was ashore on Mopeha, but not just on | leave, for the Seeadler was sitting high | on the coral reef, and every surge of the | sea was pounding and breaking her. Fred Williams of Brooklyn is now Captain F. J. Williams. Burns Philp
marine superintendent at Apia, Samoa. Some time ago he told the story of his capture by the Seeadler to Kathleen Newick, and in The Count and Captain Williams’ she has re-told it for NZBS listeners-much of it in Captain Williams’s own words. It igs an exciting story, for Captain Wi! liams-at the time of his capture he was mate of the three-masted schooner Manila-took part in both the attempis to escape from Mopeha after the Germans left. In the first of these he was 12 days at sea in a small open boat, part of the time in a gale, with heavy seas. and he ended up where he began. The first talk in this series of four. will be heard from 4YA at 7.15 p.m. on Monday, February 1. They will be broadcast later from other stations.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 18
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272PRISONER OF THE COUNT New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 18
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