KRIEGSMARINE AUXILIARY CRUISERS
(Hilfskreuzer)
Photo of auxiliary cruiser Atlantis taken by Life magazine photographer David E. Scherman. April 1941.
Auxiliary Cruisers |
Name |
Builder |
Launched |
Commd. |
Fate |
ORION (ex-Kurmark) |
Blohm & Voss, Hamburg |
27.03.1930 |
09.12.1939 |
Bombed north of Swinemünde 04.05.1945 |
ATLANTIS (ex-Goldenfels) |
Bremer Vulcan AG, Bremen-Vegesack |
16.12.1937 |
19.12.1939 |
Sunk in the South Atlantic 22.11.1941 |
WIDDER (ex-Neumark) |
Howaldtswerke AG, Kiel |
21.12.1929 |
30.11.1939 as AC |
To Britain 1945 |
THOR (ex-Santa Cruz) |
Deutsche Werft, Hamburg |
16.03.1938 |
15.03.1940 |
Sunk in Yokohama, Japan 30.11.1942 |
PINGUIN (ex-Kandefels) |
AG Weser, Bremen |
12.11.1936 |
06.02.1940 |
Sunk in Indian Ocean 08.05.1941 |
STIER (ex-Cairo) |
Germaniawerft, Kiel |
07.10.1936 |
1942 |
Sunk in South Atlantic 27.09.1942 |
KOMET (ex-Ems) |
Deutsche Werft, Hamburg |
16.01.1937 |
02.06.1940 |
Sunk in English Channel 14.10.1942 |
KORMORAN (ex-Steiermark) |
Germaniawerft, Kiel |
15.09.1938 |
09.10.1940 |
Sunk off Shark Bay, Australia 19.11.1941 |
MICHEL (ex-Bonn) (ex-Bielsko) |
Danziger Werft |
04.1939 |
07.09.1941 |
Torpedoed by USS Tarpon 60 miles east of Yokohama 17.10.1943 |
CORONEL (ex-Togo) |
Bremer Vulcan AG, Bremen-Vegesack |
1938 |
.12.1942 as AC |
To Britain 1945 |
HANSA (ex-Meersburg) |
Burmeister & Wain, Copenhagen |
05.1940 |
05.11.1940 |
To Britain 1945 |
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