General Orders issued by Acting Naval Governor Raymond Stone (28 Jan. 1904 – 16 May 1904). To go back to the list of General Orders click here.
Raymond Stone General Order Nos. 74 – 77 Read Post »
General Orders issued by Naval Governor William Elbridge Sewell (9 February 1903 – March 1904). To learn more read entry: Guam Leaders from 1899-1904. To go back to the list of General Orders click here.
William E. Sewell General Order Nos. 49 – 73 Read Post »
General Orders issued by Naval Governor William Swift (11 Aug. 1901 – 1 Nov. 1901). To learn more read entry: Guam Leaders from 1899-1904. To go back to the list of General Orders click here.
William Swift General Order Nos. 33 – 34 Read Post »
General Orders issued by Naval Governor Seaton Schroeder (19 July 1901 – 2 Nov. 1903). To learn more read entry: Guam Leaders from 1899-1904. To go back to the list of General Orders click here.
Seaton Schroeder General Order Nos. 22 – 32 and 35 – 48 Read Post »
General Orders issued by Naval Governor Richard P. Leary (1 Aug. 1899 – June 1900). To learn more read entry: Guam Leaders from 1899-1904.
Richard P. Leary General Order Nos. 1 – 21 Read Post »
Ernest Max Adolph. My father’s name was Ernest Max Adolf, perhaps he had already changed his last name to Adolph. He was born in 1891 and died in 1988, still being of sound mind at the age of 97.
SMS Cormoran II: Two Crew Member Profiles Read Post »
From December 1914 to April 1917, Guam was the backdrop for one of the earliest stories of the United States’ participation in World War I. The first violent shots between the US and Germany were fired on Guam. The first German casualties and deaths occurred in the waters of Apra Harbor, Guam. The first POWs were imprisoned on Guam.
SMS Cormoran II: Local Stories Read Post »
The German cruiser that was scuttled in Apra Harbor in April 1917 at the start of World War I was actually the second vessel in the German fleet named Cormoran. The original SMS Cormoran visited Guam in 1913 for a crew holiday, before its engine was damaged beyond repair at the German base in Tsingtao, China later the following year. Below is a description of the original Comoran vessel.
Details and description. The SS Rjasan (or Riasan) was a Russian passenger and mail carrier built by the German Schicau dockyard in Elbing in 1909. Named after the Russian town located southeast of Moscow, the Rjasan was built for the Russian Volunteer Fleet Association (known as the Dobroflot), founded in 1878.
When the SMS Cormoran II arrived in Guam in December 1914, among the hundreds of crew members were individuals who worked on the vessel but were not German. Twenty-nine men originally from German New Guinea in the South Pacific and four Chinese men from Tsingtao stayed on Guam along with their German counterparts for the duration of the Cormoran’s internment at Apra Harbor.
SMS Cormoran II: Non-German Crew Members Read Post »
