| Atlantis - War Records from 30-03-1940 to 22-11-1941 |
| Number |
Prize Name |
Type |
Flag |
Date |
Tonnage |
Fate |
| 1 |
Scientist |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
03-05-1940 |
6.200 |
Sunk |
| 2 |
Tirranna |
Freighter |
Norway |
10-06-1940 |
7.230 |
Captured |
| 3 |
City of Bagdad |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
11-07-1940 |
7.505 |
Sunk |
| 4 |
Kemmendine |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
13-07-1940 |
7.770 |
Sunk |
| 5 |
Talleyrand |
Freighter |
Norway |
02-08-1940 |
6.730 |
Sunk |
| 6 |
King City |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
24-08-1940 |
4.745 |
Sunk |
| 7 |
Athelking |
Tanker |
United Kingdom |
09-09-1940 |
9.555 |
Sunk |
| 8 |
Benarty |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
10-09-1940 |
5.800 |
Sunk |
| 9 |
Commissaire Ramel |
Passenger |
France |
20-09-1940 |
10.060 |
Sunk |
| 10 |
Durmitor |
Freighter |
Yugoslavia |
22-10-1940 |
5.620 |
Captured |
| 11 |
Teddy |
Tanker |
Norway |
09-11-1940 |
6.750 |
Sunk |
| 12 |
Ole Jakob |
Tanker |
Norway |
10-11-1940 |
8.305 |
Captured |
| 13 |
Automedon |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
11-11-1940 |
7.530 |
Sunk |
| 14 |
Mandasor |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
24-01-1941 |
5.145 |
Sunk |
| 15 |
Speybank |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
31-01-1941 |
5.150 |
Captured |
| 16 |
Ketty Brövig |
Freighter |
Norway |
02-02-1941 |
7.300 |
Captured |
| 17 |
Zam Zam |
Passenger |
Egypt |
17-04-1941 |
8.300 |
Sunk |
| 18 |
Rabaul |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
14-05-1941 |
6.810 |
Sunk |
| 19 |
Trafalgar |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
24-11-1941 |
4.530 |
Sunk |
| 20 |
Tottenham |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
17-06-1941 |
4.760 |
Sunk |
| 21 |
Balzac |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
22-06-1941 |
5.375 |
Sunk |
| 22 |
Silvaplana |
Freighter |
Norway |
10-09-1941 |
4.790 |
Captured |
| Total Atlantis Prizes |
145.960 |
|
| Notes to: |
| 1 |
Sunk with explosive charges. |
| 2 |
Good ship. Very valuable load. Dispatched to Bourdeaux with 1-5 prisoners onboard. Torpedoed and sunk off Gironde by HMS Tuna. 60 prissoners dead (men, woman and children). |
| 3 |
Sunk with explosive charges. |
| 4 |
Ship on fire. Sunk by two torpedoes. |
| 5 |
Target for Hydro tactics. Sunk with explosive charges. |
| 6 |
Sunk by gun. Six death. |
| 7 |
– |
| 8 |
Captured by the Hydro. |
| 9 |
Sunk by gun. |
| 10 |
Sent to Mogadiscio (Italian Somalie) with 312 prisoners. |
| 11 |
After replenishment of gas-oil tanks, sunk with explosive charges. |
| 12 |
Sent to Japan with her entire load of high octane aircraft gasoline and top secret documents about Singapur defences taken from (13). As a consequence, also secret approval by Japanese Government to use the small Muag Island (Marianas) as rest-refitting-replenishment area for raiders and blockade runners. |
| 13 |
Six deaths. Very important cargo. Top secret documents. After this, meeting with Pinguin. Rest at Kerguelen Islands. |
| 14 |
Hydro takes radio antennas. Hydro lost. |
| 15 |
Converted in auxiliary. Later sent to Bourdeaux with prisoners and important cargo (manganeso and caucho). |
| 16 |
Converted in auxiliary (gas-oil supplier). Meeting with blockade runner Tannenfels and Admiral Scheer. Ketty Brövig replenish the three german ships. This auxiliary ship also feeds some preys of other raiders, plus the italian submarine Perla. |
| 17 |
Crew (110) and passengers (217, most of them americans) taken. Among the passengers 100 protestant prayers, 76 american, greek, british ans french ladies, 35 children, some members of american and french Red Cross, a Time journalist and a Life photographer. Life becomes very difficult on board the Atlantis. |
| 18 |
Crew, plus prissoners on board of Atlantis, transferred to blockade runner Dresden, that safely reach Bourdeaux some weeks later. |
| 19 |
– |
| 20 |
– |
| 21 |
Around 60 prisoners, in total. Meetings with Asterufer, Babitonga and Nordmark (Etappendienst supply ships), all escaping of British hunting after Bismarck sinking. Meetings with Kormoran and Orion. |
| 22 |
Good ship, good caucho gargo. Sent to Bourdeaux (she arrived safely). Some weeks resting at Vana-Vana (Cook Islands). Atlantis crew see friendly girls for the first time on almost 18 months. Meeting with U-68- Meeting with U-126. Then, sunk by HMS Devonshire. 10 casualties. HMS Devonshire leaves the area at high speed, not recovering shipwreckers. Atlantis crew was recovered by supply ship Python, later sunk by HMS Dorsetshire. Both crews (400 men) taken by U-A, U-68, U-124, U-126 and the italian submarines Tazzoli, Finzi, Calvi and Torrelli. All of them reached safely Saint-Nazaire in the early days of 1942. |
