Akela (The Jungle Book) Akela (The Jungle Book) Akela ( / "Akelā" also called The Lone Wolf or Big Wolf) is a fictional character in Rudyard Kipling's stories, "The Jungle Book" and "The Second Jungle Book". He is the leader of the Seeonee pack of Indian wolves and presides over the pack's council meetings. It is at such a meeting that the pack adopts the lost child Mowgli and Akela becomes one of Mowgli's mentors. "Akelā" means "single or solitary" in Hindi and Urdu. Kipling also calls him the "Lone Wolf: Kipling portrays Akela with the character of an English gentleman. This is shown
Rudyard Kipling (ship) remained with the Sun Steam Trawling Co Ltd. for the rest of her career. On 16 September 1939, the "Rudyard Kipling" left Fleetwood for a routine fishing trip to an area off the west coast of Ireland. The trawler, under the command of Skipper Charles Robinson and with a crew of 12 men, was about west of the Irish town of Donegal when came alongside and ordered them to pull over to the submarine and surrender. The German crew then took the "Rudyard Kipling"s food, including sugar, bread and fish, as well as the trawler's wireless radios, and transferred them