Komet

Sunk

Type	Armed merchant cruiser
War	Second World War
Main guns	6 × 5.9″ guns

Disguised raider. Reached the Pacific in 1940 by the Northern Sea Route around Siberia with Soviet icebreakers. Sunk by a British motor torpedo boat off Cap de la Hague in October 1942 at the start of her second cruise, with all hands.

AWM caption : "THE GERMAN RAIDER "KOMET" WHICH OPERATED WITH SUCCESS IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN (WHERE SHE SANK ALLIED MERCHANT SHIPPING AND SHELLED THE PHOSPHATE LOADING PLANT AT NAURU), AND IN THE INDIAN OCEAN AND THE GALAPAGOS ISLANDS. THE "KOMET", STARTING A SECOND CRUISE IN 1942-10, AFTER HER RETURN Photo: photographer not identified, Public domain · Wikimedia Commons

Armament and specifications

Armament

6 × 15 cm (5.9 in) SK L/45
1 × 75 mm (3 in)
1 × 3.7 cm (1.5 in) SK C/30
4 × 2 cm (0.79 in) C/30 AA guns
6 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
30 × EMC mines
1 x torpedo boat LS 2

Builder	Deschimag A.G. Weser
Launched	16 January 1937
Commissioned	2 June 1940
Displacement	7,500 tons
Length	115.5 m (379 ft)
Speed	16 knots (30 km/h; 18 mph)
Complement	274

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

Career

Launched

16 January 1937

Attacks on Nauru

Survived

6–27 December 1940

Robert Eyssen; shelled Nauru on 27 December

Sinking of Komet

Sunk

14 October 1942

Lost with all hands