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' Meyer and Benson said the Staut Failed from Norfolk, Va., in September, for the South Georgia Islands. Minister Fagan continues their story as follows:
"The Staut was sighted by the British ship St. Theodore on February 11, 1917, which ship had been captured by the Germans and was manned by a German crew. A German officer boarded the Staut and ordered the new to pack up belongings and embark on the St. Theodore. After embarking, a bomb was placed in the main hatch of the Staut, and she sank within twenty minutes. The Staut carried sixteen sailors and officers. Benson being the only native American, and Meyer being a naturalized citizen. They remained ten days on the St. Theodore, and were then transferred to the German cruiser Moewe, and arrived at Kiel March 21, having been only three days on the Moewe. Benson and Meyer were confined below while on the Moewe, but knew whenever a ship had been sunk or torpedoed by the new prisoners.
According to Benson, the British schooner Jean had already been torpedoed and also the Radnorshire, the Royal Mail boat, with a crew of eighty-eight men, and the Netherby Hall, with a crew of forty men. The Staut was captured with its sixteen men. Afterwards, the British Ecknorshire was captured."  With eighty-eight men, including an American, from Seattle. 