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KRIEGSMARINE AUXILIARY CRUISERS
(Hilfskreuzer)

Auxiliary Cruiser Atlantis
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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