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The end of "Schiff 16" - the 'Atlantis'

22 November 1941: The Royal Navy finally catch up with the ship they knew as 'Raider C', the German commerce raider that had sunk or captured 22 ships

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The 7,862 ton ‘Hilfskreuzer’ Atlantis

The German Naval war against Allied merchant shipping was mainly a function of the U-Boat but alongside these the Kriegsmarine employed ‘auxiliary cruisers’. These disguised merchantmen were capable of dropping their concealment in a matter of seconds, revealing themselves as heavily armed warships, equivalent to a …

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