{"id":358,"date":"2011-01-06T01:03:35","date_gmt":"2011-01-06T01:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2023-03-09T10:04:43","modified_gmt":"2023-03-09T18:04:43","slug":"the-german-raider","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?p=358","title":{"rendered":"The German Raider"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A front-page headline in the <em>San Diego Union<\/em> screamed the news: &#8220;AMERICAN GUNBOAT TAKES HUN RAIDER OFF MEXICAN COAST.&#8221;\u00a0 Less than a year after America&#8217;s entry into World War I, San Diegans were riveted by reports of a captured German raider ship &#8220;set to create havoc with Pacific coast shipping.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Three U. S. Navy gunboats had taken their prize fifteen miles off the coast of Mazatlan on March 19, 1918.\u00a0 Heavily armed and reportedly flying the flag of the Kaiser&#8217;s Imperial Navy. . .<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read the complete story of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/German_Raider2.pdf\">The German Raider<\/a><\/strong><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_359\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AlexanderAgassiz.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359\" data-attachment-id=\"359\" data-permalink=\"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/?attachment_id=359\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AlexanderAgassiz.jpg?fit=740%2C544\" data-orig-size=\"740,544\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"AlexanderAgassiz\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;The German &amp;#8220;raider&amp;#8221; Alexander Agassiz&lt;\/p&gt;\n\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AlexanderAgassiz.jpg?fit=740%2C544\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-359\" title=\"AlexanderAgassiz\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AlexanderAgassiz.jpg?resize=300%2C220\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"220\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AlexanderAgassiz.jpg?resize=300%2C220 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/AlexanderAgassiz.jpg?w=740 740w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The German &#8220;raider&#8221; Alexander Agassiz<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"fblikebutton_button\" style=\"float: left; margin-left: 10px;\"><iframe src=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/like.php?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sandiegoyesterday.com%2F%3Fp%3D358&amp;layout=standard&amp;show-faces=true&amp;width=450&amp;action=like&amp;colorscheme=light\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowTransparency=\"true\" style=\"border:none; overflow:hidden; width:450px; height:26px\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A front-page headline in the San Diego Union screamed the news: &#8220;AMERICAN GUNBOAT TAKES HUN RAIDER OFF MEXICAN COAST.&#8221;\u00a0 Less than a year after America&#8217;s entry into World War I, San Diegans were riveted by reports of a captured German raider ship &#8220;set to create havoc with Pacific coast shipping.&#8221; Three U. S. Navy gunboats [&hellip;]<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[319,325,323,322,320,321,216,324,65],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-alexander-agassiz","tag-famous-players-lasky","tag-fritz-bauman","tag-maude-lochran","tag-mazatlan","tag-scripps-institution","tag-u-s-navy","tag-venados-island","tag-world-war-i"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pVcZn-5M","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandiegoyesterday.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}