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The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis (HSK 2), known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 16 and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser), or merchant or commerce raider of the Kriegsmarine, which, in World War II, travelled more than 161,000 km (100,000 mi) in 602 days, and sank or captured 22 ships with a combined tonnage of 144,384.
Ulrich Mohr. Ulrich Mohr was a German naval officer and the adjutant (first officer) on the Kriegsmarine auxiliary cruiser Atlantis during the Second World War, where one of his functions was to board captured ships and search for secret papers that might be of use to the German war effort. In November 1940, Atlantis captured the merchant ship ...
List of auxiliary and merchant cruisers. The following is a list, by period and country, of armed merchant ships used since the late 19th century in the role of auxiliary cruisers, also called armed merchant cruisers. RMS Carmania sinking SMS Cap Trafalgar near the Brazilian islands of Trindade, 14 September 1914.
The German raider Atlantis. At about 0555 hrs on 17 April the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis opened fire on Zamzam from a range of about 3.5 nautical miles (6 km). [30] Nine 150 mm shells hit Zamzam ' port side, injuring several passengers and crew, including the ship's doctor. [31]
Karl-Friedrich Merten. Karl-Friedrich Merten (15 August 1905 – 2 May 1993) commanded the U-boat U-68 in Nazi Germany 's Kriegsmarine during World War II. He received the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross with Oak Leaves. Merten was credited with the sinking of 27 ships for a total of 170,151 gross register tons (GRT) of Allied shipping.
The Kriegsmarine (German pronunciation: [ˈkʁiːksmaˌʁiːnə], lit.'War Navy') was the navy of Nazi Germany from 1935 to 1945. It superseded the Imperial German Navy of the German Empire (1871–1918) and the inter-war Reichsmarine (1919–1935) of the Weimar Republic. The Kriegsmarine was one of three official branches, along with the Heer ...
List of cruisers of Germany. Kaiserin Augusta and Seeadler, two of Germany's earliest cruisers, in New York in 1893. Starting in the 1880s, the German Kaiserliche Marine (Imperial Navy) began building a series of cruisers. The first designs— protected and unprotected —were ordered to replace aging sail and steam-powered frigates and ...
The German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran (HSK-8)[ a ] was a Kriegsmarine (German navy) merchant raider of World War II. Originally the merchant vessel Steiermark (" Styria "), the ship was acquired by the navy following the outbreak of war for conversion into a raider. Administered under the designation Schiff 41, 'Ship 41', to the Allied navies ...