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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.
Atlantis Kormoran in 1940, view from a German U-boat At the outbreak of war, the Kriegsmarine requisitioned a number of fast merchantmen and immediately sent them into naval shipyards to be converted into offensive auxiliary cruisers.
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.
1915 — joins the Imperial German Navy as a volunteer; After World War I — serves on various cruisers; Mid-1930s to 1939 — commander of the sail training ship SSS Albert Leo Schlageter; September 1939 — assigned to the German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis. Mid-December 1939 — Atlantis is formally commissioned; 31 March 1940 — Atlantis ...
German cruiser Admiral Scheer; SMS Arcona (1902) German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis; B. German cruiser Blücher; D. German cruiser Deutschland; E. German cruiser Emden; H.
The German designation for the ships was 'Handelstörkreuzer' thus the HSK serial assigned. Each had as well an administrative label more commonly used, e.g. Schiff 16 = Atlantis, Schiff 41 = Kormoran, etc. The auxiliary cruisers were: Orion (HSK-1, Schiff 36) Atlantis (HSK-2, Schiff 16) Widder (HSK-3, Schiff 21) Thor (HSK-4, Schiff 10)
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis; H. ... German auxiliary cruiser Thor; German night fighter direction vessel Togo; W. German auxiliary cruiser Widder
The following ships were named Atlantis for the city of Atlantis: German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis, a German auxiliary cruiser that operated during World War II; HMS Atlantis, a cancelled submarine of the Royal Navy; RV Atlantis, a sail training and research vessel renamed PNA Dr. Bernardo A. Houssay of the Argentine Prefecture