History
United Kingdom
Name	Saint Théodore
Owner	Brit. & Foreign. S.S. Co.
Port of registry	Liverpool
Builder	W. Hamilton & Co., Glasgow
Laid down	1913
Launched	25 April 1913
Fate	Captured by SMS Möwe and scuttled on 14 February 1917
German Empire
Name	German: Geier
Namesake	Vulture
Acquired	12 December 1916 (taken as prize)
Commissioned	28 December 1916
Fate	scuttled on 14 February 1917
General characteristics
Type	auxiliary cruiser (German: (Hilfskreuzer)
Tonnage	4,992 gross register tons (GRT)
Displacement	9,700 long tons (9,856 t)
Length	127.2 m (417 ft 4 in)
Beam	15.85 m (52 ft 0 in)
Height	8.25 m (27 ft 1 in)
Draught	6.4 m (21 ft)
Decks	2
Propulsion	1,800 ihp (1,300 kW) steam engine
Speed	12.6 knots (23.3 km/h; 14.5 mph)
Crew	As German auxiliary cruiser: 2 officers, 46 enlisted
Armament	As German auxiliary cruiser: 2 × 5.2 cm (2.0 in) guns

Geier was a British cargo ship named Saint Théodore that was captured by the German commerce raider Möwe in the North Atlantic Ocean at 39°30′N 17°30′W / 39.500°N 17.500°W / 39.500; -17.500 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 (German: Hilfskreuzer) on 28 December and operated in the South Atlantic Ocean until 14 February 1917, when she was scuttled near Ilha da Trindade.^[1]

21°01′S 31°49′W / 21.017°S 31.817°W / -21.017; -31.817

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