Geier (freighter)
{{Short description|British cargo ship captured by the German Empire}}
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}} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header= |Ship country=United Kingdom |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|United Kingdom|civil}} |Ship name=Saint Théodore |Ship namesake= |Ship owner=Brit. & Foreign. S.S. Co. |Ship operator= |Ship registry=Liverpool |Ship route= |Ship ordered= |Ship awarded= |Ship builder=W. Hamilton & Co., Glasgow |Ship original cost= |Ship yard number= |Ship way number= |Ship laid down=1913 |Ship launched=25 April 1913 |Ship sponsor= |Ship christened= |Ship completed= |Ship acquired= |Ship commissioned= |Ship recommissioned= |Ship decommissioned= |Ship maiden voyage= |Ship in service= |Ship out of service= |Ship renamed= |Ship reclassified= |Ship refit= |Ship struck= |Ship reinstated= |Ship homeport= |Ship identification= |Ship motto= |Ship nickname= |Ship honours= |Ship honors= |Ship captured= |Ship fate=Captured by {{SMS|Möwe|1914|6}} and scuttled on 14 February 1917 |Ship notes= |Ship badge= }} {{Infobox ship career |Hide header=title |Ship country=German Empire |Ship flag={{shipboxflag|German Empire|naval}} |Ship name={{langx|de|Geier}} |Ship namesake=Vulture |Ship acquired=12 December 1916 (taken as prize) |Ship commissioned=28 December 1916 |Ship fate=scuttled on 14 February 1917 }} {{Infobox ship characteristics |Hide header= |Header caption= |Ship class= |Ship type=*auxiliary cruiser
|Ship tonnage={{GRT|4992|disp=long}} |Ship displacement={{convert|9,700|LT|t|0|abbr=on}} |Ship length={{convert|127.2|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship beam={{convert|15.85|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship height={{convert|8.25|m|ftin|abbr=on}} |Ship draught={{convert|6.4|m|ft|abbr=on}} |Ship depth= |Ship hold depth= |Ship decks=2 |Ship deck clearance= |Ship ramps= |Ship power= |Ship propulsion={{convert|1800|ihp|abbr=on}} steam engine |Ship speed={{convert|12.6|kn|lk=in}} |Ship range= |Ship endurance= |Ship test depth= |Ship boats= |Ship capacity= |Ship troops= |Ship complement= |Ship crew=*As German auxiliary cruiser:
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Geier was a British cargo ship named Saint Théodore that was captured by the German commerce raider {{SMS|Möwe|1914|2}} in the North Atlantic Ocean at {{coord|39|30|N|17|30|W|display=inline}} 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 ({{langx|de|Hilfskreuzer}}) on 28 December and operated in the South Atlantic Ocean until 14 February 1917, when she was scuttled near Ilha da Trindade.[http://www.german-navy.de/hochseeflotte/ships/auxcruiser/geier/index.html Geier (Hilfskreuzer)] at german-navy.de.
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Category:Ships built on the River Clyde
Category:World War I cruisers of Germany
Category:Maritime incidents in 1916
Category:Auxiliary cruisers of the Imperial German Navy
Category:World War I commerce raiders
Category:Maritime incidents in 1917
Category:World War I shipwrecks in the Atlantic Ocean
Category:Scuttled vessels of Germany
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