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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.
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.
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 ...
Between 1897 and the end of World War I, the German Navy completed forty-seven light cruisers; all of these ships saw service during the war in a variety of theaters and roles. Some, such as Emden and Königsberg , served as commerce raiders, [ 50 ] [ 51 ] while others, such as the two Wiesbaden -class cruisers , served with the High Seas Fleet ...
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.
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
German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis; C. SS Cattaro (1920) H. German auxiliary cruiser Hansa; K. German auxiliary cruiser Komet; German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran; M.
German cruiser Admiral Scheer; SMS Arcona (1902) German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis; B. German cruiser Blücher; D. German cruiser Deutschland; E. German cruiser Emden; H.