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Stier (HSK 6) was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Her Kriegsmarine designation was Schiff 23, to the Royal Navy she was Raider J.
The name Stier means "bull" and also represents the Taurus constellation in the German language. She was the last German raider to break out into the Atlantic in World War II.
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Stier (HSK 6) was an auxiliarycruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine during World War II. Her Kriegsmarine designation was Schiff 23, to the Royal Navy...
raiding German auxiliary cruiserStier and Liberty ship Stephen Hopkins sink following a gun battle in the South Atlantic. Stier is the only commerce raider...
used since the late 19th century in the role of auxiliarycruisers, also called armed merchant cruisers. Note: This listing is incomplete. The Spanish...
the Battle of Pulo Aura in 1804, and the Germanauxiliarycruiser Kormoran sinking the Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney in their battle in 1941, although...
through T36 Atlantis Coronel Hansa Komet Kormoran Michel Orion Pinguin Stier Thor Widder Tannenberg 1935 (5,500 tons, 3 × 150 mm guns, 460 mines) Brandenburg...
(including auxiliarycruisers) were used to disrupt Allied shipping in the early years of the war, the most famous of these being the heavy cruisers Admiral...
ship Stephen Hopkins and the GermanauxiliarycruiserStier shelled and sank each other in the South Atlantic Ocean. German submarine U-165 was depth charged...
raiding GermanauxiliarycruiserStier and American Liberty ship SS Stephen Hopkins sink, following a gun battle in the South Atlantic. Hilfskreuzer Stier is...
raiding GermanauxiliarycruiserStier and American Liberty ship SS Stephen Hopkins sink following a gun battle in the South Atlantic. Hilfskreuzer Stier is...
Japanese carriers and one Japanese heavy cruiser 6 June Action of 6 June 1942 – German merchant raider Stier sinks American Liberty Ship, SS Stanvac Calcutta...
facto naval auxiliaries and removed the protection of the cruiser rules.[failed verification] The Treaty of Versailles forbade the Germans to operate U-boats...
the testing was done on the auxiliarycruiserStier, two of the six prototypes being taken on one voyage. Data from German aircraft of the Second World...
This list of auxiliary vessels of Second World War contains major military vessels of the war, arranged alphabetically and by type. The list includes...
from Cape Town when attacked by the auxiliarycruiserStier. Stephen Hopkins was ordered to stop by the Germans, the Americans refused, so they opened...
des Frachtdampfers „Fürth“ (in German). Retrieved 17 February 2024. Lloyd's Register 1911, AUK–AUG. "Accidents to German steamers". The Sydney Morning...
from Cape Town to Surinam, she encountered the heavily armed German commerce raider Stier and her tender Tannenfels. Because of fog, the ships were only...
the outset of World War I, the Imperial German Navy lacked sufficient numbers of warships to perform auxiliary tasks like coastal patrol and convoy escort...
repair from 10 September to 19 December, and was recommissioned as the auxiliary minesweeper Sperrbrecher 18, joining the 3rd Sperrbrecherflotille, operating...
June 1942 was a single ship action fought during World War II. The German raider Stier encountered and sank the American tanker SS Stanvac Calcutta while...
escort the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen and the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau from Brittany through the English Channel to German ports. The six Vorpostenboote...
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