Todd war diary, 3 August 1914-29 February 1916 / Arthur Todd - Page 309
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[Page 309]
This now left the Kronprinz Wilhelm as the sole representative of Germany upon the high seas. She flew the only German naval ensign out of Kiel, and we had a large fleet upon her trail, and her time was becoming short. The following German ships had now been sunk or otherwise destroyed away from home:
Scharnhorst.
Gneisenau.
Nürnberg.
Leipzig.
Dresden.
Königsberg.
Karlsruhe.
Emden.
Cap Trafalgar.
Kaiser Wilhelm der Grosse.
[The Karlsruhe sunk following an accidental internal explosion in Nov. 1914]
The Geier, Condor, Komet, and Prinz Eitel Friedrich had been captured or interned. All these had gone within six months, not a bad performance for a Navy which according to some English people was doing nothing, and according to the Huns was hiding in its bases.
Each night on the journey south the Admiral dined some of us in his quarters aft, to our great content. Game and fish, things we had not seen for months, except when a local Isaak Walton [Izaak Walton, 1594-1683, author of The Compleat Angler] caught a couple of gudgeons over the side, appeared from nowhere , and we now began to suspect the numerous crates and boxes we took aboard with the Admiral at the Abrolhos. They were stuffed full of food; and so with the aid of our "frigory" he was able to put on a dinner fit for the gods and well worth the agony of struggling into a boiled