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Tuesday, May 25, 2004

*Transferring ownership to clear way for shoring up Morris Island structure
-Charleston Post and Courier, 5-24-04

*Glynn and McIntosh counties are receiving assistance from outside agencies as they prepare their annual battles during mosquito season
-Brunswick News, 5-24-04

*Boy bitten on leg by shark near Fifth Street
-St. Augustine Record, 5-24-04

"Support by the U.S. Government"

Dear members, dear friends,

A time ago some of our society met with the Consul General of the USA, Mr. Fletcher Burton, to ask him
to support our goals and our society. As a present we handed over a book of Count von Luckner "Seeteufel erobert
Amerika" written about the Good-Will-Mission in the 1920's and describing that the Count among others became an honorary citizen of San Francisco.

Now we received a letter from Mr. Burton.

From now on we are allowed to refer to him if doing especially researches or anything else. He officially supports our society what means that we got the U.S. Government at our side, a great success, as I think!

Hopefully, it is going to open some door more easily when trying to get new contacts in the US or in other countries.

Let us see if we can get a similar support by the governments in Australia or/and New Zealand. Has anyone got an idea how we could get this done?

Best ever,
Matthias J. Maurer

Hello,

I am fascinated to have discovered your site.  It was only a chance family gathering last month that I sat down with my father to discuss his family tree/background.  It was then that he starting talking about Count Von Luckner the German Spy, from his boyhood in Hawera, New Zealand in 1938.

It seems that my Grandfather (a rather eccentric man of his time), befriended a man in the street, whom he promptly invited to stay at his homestead, (my Grandfather was a rather rich gentleman of the times).  This man, whom my father relayed to us was Count Von Luckner of the Seeadler.  And that he did stay with my father's family for a short while.  It wasn't until after the war that they then realised who in fact he was.

A fascinating recount of bygone days.

Leigh Wiltshire

Leigh,

Thank you for your message, and I am pleased you found Ahoy. It is the combined efforts of my webmaster in Atlanta, Georgia, my good friend Terry Kearns, he puts the order into all my research and subsequent scribblings.

Both of us are always delighted when we ring a bell for someone or their family, and Count von Luckner has kept that bell chiming from many different places around the world. We find it quite incredible at all the interest in him since I first wrote about his exploits in Seeadler, as part of my work on Mauraders of the Sea WW1.

We would be pleased if you are able to share any other stories about your Grandfather and the wily WW1 sailor of some renown, he will never be replicated, truly a one off character!!

Again thank you for writing, and best wishes from us both.

Mac. Gregory.