The Pinguin was a German auxiliary cruiser (Hilfskreuzer) which served as a commerce raider in World War II. The Pinguin was known to the Kriegsmarine...
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hidden weapons and use them as commerce raiders. An auxiliary cruiser, Hilfskreuzer or Handels-Stör-Kreuzer (HSK), usually approached her target under a...
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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...
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Widder (HSK 3) was an auxiliary cruiser (Hilfskreuzer) of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine that was used as a merchant raider in the Second World War. Her Kriegsmarine...
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Wikisource. "Antarctic Treaty". Retrieved 2007-01-21. Asmussen, John. "Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser) Komet". Retrieved 2007-01-21. "HMAS Wyatt Earp"....
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November 8, 2017. Muggenthaler, August K. (1981). Das waren Die Deutschen Hilfskreuzer 1939-1945. Bewaffnete Handelsschiffe im Einsatz (in German). Motorbuch...
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Sea, German Armed Merchant Raiders During World War 1, Wolf Marauders of the Sea, German Armed Merchant Raiders During World War 1, Möwe Hilfskreuzer...
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mission to sink British merchant shipping. She was given the codename Hilfskreuzer B (Auxiliary Cruiser B) and was commanded by Korvettenkapitän Wirth....
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Emden, Königsberg, Karlsruhe. Die Hilfskreuzer, Oldenburg i. O. 1931. Eberhard von Mantey: Die deutschen Hilfskreuzer, Berlin 1937. John Walter: Die Piraten...
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(later Kapitan zur See) Helmuth von Ruckteschell, the former commander of Hilfskreuzer 3, the raider Widder). Michel grounded on her first attempt to run through...
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