CX - SMS Cormoran (1909)

Hilfskreuzer Cormoran


ship type: auxiliary cruiser
ship class:


Built by shipyard: Schichau Elbing
keel laying: 1909
launched: March 1909
taken over as auxiliary cruiser: 7 August 1914
cost of construction:


104 metres overall length.
width: 13.07 metres
draught: 5.8 metres
standard displacement: 7,250 tonnes (3,433 GRT)
Full displacement:


4,750 HP
speed: 13 knots

Armour:


Armament:
Main
8 guns 105 mm


crew:


Service:


The Russian steamer Ryazan was intercepted by the cruiser SMS Emden on 4 August 1914 and sent to Tsingtau. Here she was armed with the guns of the old gunboat Cormoran and renamed Cormoran. The cruiser was ordered to operate in the South Pacific. Here she met with no success and after using up her coal was interned on 13 December 1914 at Guam. Here she was sunk on 7 April 1917 by her own crew.
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Hilfskreuzer Cormoran
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