 In Lowell Thomas' 1928 book on von Luckner he reports that the loss of "Seeadler" was the consequence of a tsunami.Some of the stranded sailors were American prisoners of war who were captured on the ocean by Luckner's raiders.Eventually von Luckner chose a few men and rigged a long boat with a sail to journey about to the Fiji Islands where von Luckner intended to capture another sailing ship and go back and rescue the remaining seamen on Mopelia.