Wetterbeobachtungs-Schiff Schiff 36 -
Orion Hilfskreuzer (HSK
1)
Built |
Name |
Disguise |
Denmark Strait |
Note |
1930 |
Orion |
Dutch - "Beemsterdijk" |
app. 11.4.1940 |
Supported by weather ships: |
Orion (HSK 1, SCHIFF 36) was formerly Kurmark, belonging to Hamburg-Amerika-Linie in Hamburg, build 1930, 7021 gt, top speed 13,5 knots. Captain was Kurt Weyher. Orion went out from Kiel on March 30-1940 and returned to Gironde in France on August 23-1941. On her 511-days voyage she sunk or captured 17 ships (85.779 gross tons). |
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Operations 5.5. - 31.10. 1940
Support from Weather ships and Weather
flights:
2.5.1940:
Seekriegsleitung issues
following |
"Orion" - Possible mail connections
Date |
Port / Ship |
Direction |
to 30.3.1940 |
Kiel, Germany |
In & Out |
30.3.-6.4.1940 |
Süder-Piep Bucht, Schleswig-Holstein | Out (?) |
app. 5.6.1940 |
Meet supply ship Königsberg (from Belem, Brazil). After refuelling Köningsberg proceed to Vigo, Spain. On 16.6.40 Königsberg was scuttled by her crew as she was stopped by a french cruiser. |
Out Königsberg (lost) |
No Covers
Feldpost Nr. M 11089 |
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From: "Die deutsche Feldpostübersicht 1939-1945" by Norbert Kannapin.
Schiff 36 Orion
disguised as the dutch freighter "Beemsterdijk"
Transcript of Radio message
from PoW Fraser (ex. Triona
or Triaster)
War Records 5.5.40 - 31.10.40 |
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Prize Name | Type | Flag | Date | Tonnage | Fate | |
Haxby | Freighter | United Kingdom | 24-4-40 | 5.207 | Sunk | |
Niagara | Passenger | United Kingdom | 18-6-40 | 13.415 | Mined | |
Tropic Sea | Freighter | Norway | 19-6-40 | 5.781 | Captured | |
Notou | Freighter | France | 16-8-40 | 2.489 | Sunk | |
Turakina | Freighter | United Kingdom | 20-8-40 | 9.691 | Sunk | |
Ringwood | Freighter | Norway | 14-10-40 | 7.203 | Sunk | |
Holmwood | Freighter | United Kingdom | 25-11-40 | 546 | Sunk* | |
Rangitane | Passenger | United Kingdom | 27-11-40 | 16.712 | Sunk* | |
Triona | Freighter | United Kingdom | 6-12-40 | 4.413 | Sunk* | |
Vinni | Freighter | Norway | 7-12-40 | 5.181 | Sunk* | |
Komata | Freighter | United Kingdom | 7-12-40 | 3.900 | Sunk* | |
Triadic | Freighter | United Kingdom | 8-12-40 | 6.378 | Sunk* | |
Triaster | Freighter | United Kingdom | 9-12-40 | 6.032 | Sunk* | |
HMNZS Puriri | Minesweeper | United Kingdom | 14-5-41 | 927 | Mined | |
Chaucer | Freighter | United Kingdom | 29-7-41 | 5.792 | Sunk | |
Port Bowen | Freighter | United Kingdom | - | 8.276 | Mined | |
Batavia | Freighter | United Kingdom | - | 1.739 | Mined | |
* = by Komet and Orion |
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Total by Schiff 36 Orion (adjusted): |
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