Amid darkness and cold, Atlantis sailed for Süderpiep in the North Sea right on time.

Pigors refused, saying that if Rogge went down with Atlantis so would he. When Munsterland turned up, Eyssen demanded the bulk of the supplies.

The next shots went directly over the bridge of the ship, which then stopped. The German Naval attaché Paul Wenneker had the summary of the British plan wired to Berlin, while the original was hand-carried by Kamenz to Berlin via the Trans-Siberian railway. That evening, Storstadt arrived to fuel Atlantis and take on her 124 prisoners as well as food and water.

Mohr and his team took Speybank as a prize.

At 6:11 pm on January 31, Matrose Willi Freiwald spotted the 5,154-ton Speybank. Mohr brought back 47 of Balzac’s crew, and the ship sank.

Fehler’s scuttling charges went off, and Mandasor slid into the water bow first, leaving a patch of debris and floating tea on the surface. The Soviet Union was neutral at the time. Commerce raiders do not seek to engage warships, but rather attack enemy merchant shipping; the measures of success are tonnage destroyed (or captured) and time spent at large.

The seaplane from Atlantis made several fruitless reconnaissance flights. Our bitterness at the loss of our ship has been intensified by the thought that we had to abandon her without a fight.”. There he held muster and passed out the mountain of mail due to the men before giving them two days of liberty. The Germans grabbed 1,000 frames of Scherman’s film to censor in Berlin, but he kept four rolls in a tube of toothpaste, another of shaving cream and two boxes of surgical gauze in a missionary doctor’s bag until they reached neutral Portugal.

As the two ships stopped, Rogge saw women and children and felt relieved that the gunfire was over, hoping he could take a prize. At noon, a lookout spotted a ship heading straight for them across heavy gray seas. His men had only eaten a potato dish 16 times, and none for four months. Oliver. The court determined that when Kemmendine was hit a steam pipe ruptured, which drowned out all communications to the stern gun. To preserve secrecy, a sailor was left behind to pick up the ship’s mail every day and store it in an unused back room. A phony crane and deckhouse on the aft section hid two of the 150 mm (5.9 in) guns; the other four guns were concealed via flaps in the side[4][5]:46 that were lowered when action was imminent. On May 21, Rogge massed his crew. As Tamesis’s cover had been blown, Atlantis now became the four-year-old Dutch motor ship Brastagi. But Mund, Goldenfels’s old first officer, said the ship looked like a former Hansa line ship. [10], In the second week of November, two Norwegian tankers: Teddy and Ole Jacob were seized by Atlantis. But Rogge vetoed other officers, demanding men from other warships and commands. The first torpedo swept past Atlantis’s bow. He ripped the aerial from its mountings, then dropped his bombs and scored two direct hits. By June 11, the ship had been at sea for 445 days, setting German and world records for consecutive days at sea. Two days later the German refuelling ship Python arrived and took the survivors aboard. Built by Bremer Vulkan in 1937, she began her career as the cargo ship Goldenfels, owned and operated by DDG Hansa, Bremen. Mohr broke out Lloyd’s Register of International Shipping and studied profiles.

Tomkins, had been killed and the ship was subsequently sunk.

Description Schiff 16 Atlantis, known to the Royal Navy as Raider C. Photo taken by Life photographer David Scherman from a lifeboat shortly after the attack on passenger ship Zamzam. She was commanded by Kapitän zur See Bernhard Rogge, who received the Oak Leaves to the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross. Rogge took Teddy as a prize and sent it to “Point Mangrove.”. On June 10, lookouts spotted mastheads off the starboard beam. The British picked up the message but did not get a good fix. In her previous life, she had been the Hansa-line freighter Goldenfels. Rogge opened fire and sank the Briton. During the fueling, a signal came from Berlin. To complete the fiasco, Kemmendine sent up blazing piles of smoke, refusing to sink. The following morning Atlantis met up with Dresden and the 2,729-ton supply ship Alsterufer, which had a complete load of supplies for Atlantis, including three new Arado Ar-196A seaplanes and a load of personal mail for the crew. At 2:45 am on August 24, Atlantis was 200 miles north of Rodriguez Island when smoke was sighted. The chase finally ended with the Norwegian motor ship Tirranna surrendering, the crew trapped on their ship by splintered lifeboats. Mohr ran up a ladder to find 43 Chinese and nine Norwegians on the 7,031-ton tanker Ketty Brovig racing around in terror. Under that title, Hilfskreuzer 16 would set out on the longest ocean voyage in history and become the most successful disguised merchant raider in the history of warfare. The 75 mm (3.0 in) gun fired a warning shot. With Dehnel in command, the vessel completed an arduous trek to safety in Italian Somaliland. On October 18, after a few days of rest, Atlantis hoisted anchor for the last time and headed for Cape Horn. Once the British troopship Leicestershire, the 8,299-ton ship was now the Egyptian liner Zam Zam, and she was carrying a passenger list of 202 that reflected the craziness of war, including American missionary families, 24 American ambulance drivers for a Free French brigade in Libya, 100 clergymen of 20 different denominations, 76 women, five of whom were pregnant, and 35 babies. On Friday, May 10, 1940, at 8:30 pm, Atlantis began laying mines 30 miles from the visible Cape Agulhas light. After failing to sink the ship with demolition charges, Atlantis used guns and a torpedo to finish off The Scientist. Mohr recommended and Rogge approved the year-old Dutch two-master Abbekerk, 7,906 tons. Just as Mohr arrived, Benarty’s crew was abandoning ship.

[5]:190 At 08:40, Atlantis transmitted a raider report posing as the Dutch ship Polyphemus, but by 09:34 Devonshire had received confirmation that this was false. He made a note of that fact in his war log, calling their conduct “exemplary.” The raider headed east, and Rogge marked Atlantis’s 500th day at sea with a full-dress inspection.

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