German auxiliary raider Adjutant
Adjutant
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History | |
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Name | Pol IX |
Owner | Hvalfangerselskapet "Polaris" A/S |
Port of registry | Larvik |
Builder | Smiths Dock Company , Middlesbrough |
Yard number | 1050 |
Launched | 1937 |
Fate | taken as prize by German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin on 14 January 1941 |
Nazi Germany | |
Name | Adjutant |
Acquired | 14 January 1941 |
Commissioned | 10 February 1941 |
Reclassified | 24 May 1941 |
Fate | scuttled in Cook Strait, 1 July 1941 |
General characteristics | |
Tonnage | 354 gross register tons (GRT) |
Length | 42.80 m (140 ft 5 in) |
Beam | 8.02 m (26 ft 4 in) |
Draught | 3.47 m (11 ft 5 in) |
Propulsion | 1,600 ihp (1,200 kW) steam engine |
Speed | 15 knots (28 km/h; 17 mph) |
Range | 5,000 nautical miles (9,300 km; 5,800 mi) at 14 knots (26 km/h; 16 mph) |
Complement | 2 officers, 14 enlisted |
Armament |
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Adjutant was a Kriegsmarine (German Navy) commerce raider that served during World War II.
Built as the Norwegian whaler Pol IX, she was captured on 14 January 1941 by the German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin. She was renamed Adjutant and used as a commerce raider. Captained by Adjutant Hemmer and used a first as a scout, she then was used as a minelayer in the South Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean. She was scuttled in the Pacific Ocean on 1 July 1941 by the German auxiliary cruiser Komet after suffering engine trouble off the Chatham Islands.
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Categories:
- 1937 ships
- Ships built on the River Tees
- World War II mine warfare vessels of Germany
- World War II shipwrecks in the Pacific Ocean
- Maritime incidents in July 1941
- Auxiliary ships of the Kriegsmarine
- Scuttled vessels of Germany
- Captured ships