Category:Pinguin (ship, 1936, Bremen)

Ship[edit]

• Type: Cargo ship, later auxiliary cruiser
• Built by: AG Weser Bremen
• Yard No: 917
• Keel laid:
• Launched: 1936.11.12
• Completed: 1936
• Length over all: 485.6 ft
• Beam: 61.3 ft
• GT: 7766
• DWT:
• Sister ships: Kybfels, Goldenfels
• www.warcovers.dk
• www.german-navy.de
• www.bismarck-class.dk
• www.wrecksite.eu
• plimsoll.southampton.gov.uk

History[edit]

• 1936 Named Kandelfels; Flag: Germany
  • Call sign: DORW
  • Port: Bremen
  • Owner: Deutschen Dampfschiffahrts Gesselschaft Hansa
• 1939.09 Requisitioned by Germany Navy as auxiliary cruiser; began conversion
• 1940.02.06 Renamed Schiff 33 / HSK V Pinguin; Flag: Germany
  • Known to Allies as Raider F
• 1941.05.08 Sunk near Seychelles by HMS Cornwall