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HSK 3 Widder
Auxiliary cruiser

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She was the only German auxiliary cruiser to survive the war, after one 1940 cruise in which she sank ten vessels to a total of almost sixty thousand tons.

Her captain, Kapitan zur See Helmuth von Ruckteschell, was one of only two German naval commanders convicted of war crimes at the end of the war.

Originally the liner Neumark of the Hamburg-America Line, she was rechristened this after her cruises, and was used as a repair ship in Norway. After the war she was taken into British service as Ulysses, then sold back to Germany as Fechenheim in 1950 before being wrecked off Bergen in 1955.

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See Also	HSK 1 Orion HSK 2 Atlantis HSK 3 Widder HSK 4 Thor HSK 5 Pinguin HSK 6 Stier HSK 7 Komet HSK 8 Kormoran HSK 9 Michel Coronel Hansa

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HSK 3 Widder Auxiliary cruiser

HSK 3 Widder
Auxiliary cruiser