New Light on the Emden: Story of a Famous Sea Fight, by Lewis R Freeman | 9 November 1914 | Episode 48

For the first three months of the War, the Emden, rivalling the exploits of the old French corsairs, had wrought great damage to English merchant shipping, and a sigh of relief arose when on November 9. 1914, H.M.S. Sydney at last put an end to the predatory career of the German light cruiser. The fight is here described to an interviewer, Lewis Freeman, by a Signalman on the Sydney who from his vantage point had an unrivalled opportunity of witnessing every phase of the action.

Lewis Freeman, who recorded the unknown Signalman's exploits, was an American, born in Wisconsin and educated at Stanford.