Merchantraiders are armed commerce raiding ships that disguise themselves as non-combatant merchant vessels. Germany used several merchantraiders early...
In more modern times, auxiliary cruisers were used offensively as merchantraiders to disrupt trade chiefly during both World War I and World War II,...
Kormoran (HSK-8) was a Kriegsmarine (German navy) merchantraider of World War II. Originally the merchant vessel Steiermark ("Styria"), the ship was acquired...
Atlantic 4 April – Action of 4 April 1941 – German merchantraider Thor engages and sinks British merchantraider HMS Voltair off Cape Verde 6 April – Action...
Look up raider in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Raider(s) may refer to: Paul Revere & the Raiders, an American rock band "Raider", a track from the...
against Britain and her allies, principally with U-boats, but also with merchantraiders and light cruisers, and even occasionally with naval airships. During...
destroyers and submarines to stop German merchant ships leaving the Dutch East Indies. 11 May 1940: German merchantraider Atlantis entered the Indian Ocean...
and to the Royal Navy as Raider-C, was a converted German Hilfskreuzer (auxiliary cruiser), or merchant or commerce raider of the Kriegsmarine, which...
that was used as a merchantraider in the Second World War. Her Kriegsmarine designation was Schiff 21, to the Royal Navy she was Raider D. The name Widder...
self-defense Merchant aircraft carrier A merchant vessel capable of launching aircraft Merchantraider An armed vessel used for raiding disguised as a merchant vessel...
with little or no experience of warship construction. Although built to merchant standards, the design incorporated better watertight subdivision. Expected...
auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's Kriegsmarine which operated as a merchantraider in World War II. Blohm & Voss built her in Hamburg in 1930–31 as the...
invasion of India as a whole. After a very successful career as a merchantraider, Emden was engaged by HMAS Sydney at the Battle of Cocos, where the...
SMS Greif (auxiliary cruiser), a converted freighter serving as a merchantraider with Imperial Germany in World War I German torpedo boat Greif, 1925–1944...
During World War II, he commanded a merchantraider. Although it was not mentioned in his book "The Black Raider", it seems that Weyher was a non-trivial...
1982) was a German naval officer who, during World War II, commanded a merchantraider. Later, he became a Konteradmiral in West Germany's navy. Rogge became...
make such attacks on the battleships of the enemy. The task of escorting merchant convoys was still in the future. An important development came with the...
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