Atlantis

Sunk

Type	Armed merchant cruiser
War	Second World War
Main guns	6 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45

The most successful of the disguised raiders. Under Bernhard Rogge she cruised for 602 days and took or sank 22 ships, among them Automedon, carrying secret British papers on the defence of the Far East that were passed to Japan. Sunk by the cruiser Devonshire in the South Atlantic on 22 November 1941.

Hilfskreuzer Atlantis Photo: S.W.Roskill, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

6 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45
1 × 75 mm (3 in) gun
2 × twin 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30
2 × twin 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 cannons
4 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
93 × mines

Builder	Bremer Vulkan
Launched	16 December 1937
Commissioned	19 December 1939
Displacement	17,600 t (17,300 long tons)
Length	155 m (509 ft)
Speed	17.5 kn (32.4 km/h; 20.1 mph)
Complement	349–351

As built, from the ship's Wikipedia article. Figures there may cover later refits too.

Career

Launched

16 December 1937

Sinking of Atlantis

Scuttled

22 November 1941

Bernhard Rogge; 7 killed