| Orion - War Records from 07-04-1940 to 30-08-1941 |
| Number |
Prize Name |
Type |
Flag |
Date |
Tonnage |
Fate |
| 1 |
Haxby |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
24-04-1940 |
5.210 |
Sunk |
| 2 |
Tropic Sea |
Freighter |
Norway |
19-06-1940 |
8.755 |
Captured |
| 3 |
Notou |
Freighter |
France |
16-08-1940 |
2.485 |
Sunk |
| 4 |
Turakina |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
20-08-1940 |
9.690 |
Sunk |
| 5 |
Ringwood |
Freighter |
Norway |
14-10-1940 |
7.205 |
Sunk |
| 6 |
Chaucer |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
29-07-1941 |
5.790 |
Sunk |
| Subtotal Orion Prizes (alone) |
39.135 |
|
| 7 |
Niagara |
Passenger |
United Kingdom |
N/A |
13.415 |
Sunk |
| 8 |
HMNZS Puriri |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
N/A |
925 |
Sunk |
| 9 |
Port Bowen |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
N/A |
8.275 |
Sunk |
| 10 |
Batavia |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
N/A |
1.500 |
Sunk |
| Subtotal Orion Mines |
24.115 |
|
| 11 |
Holmwood |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
25-11-1940 |
545 |
Sunk |
| 12 |
Rangitane |
Passenger |
United Kingdom |
27-11-1940 |
16.710 |
Sunk |
| 13 |
Triona |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
06-12-1940 |
4.410 |
Sunk |
| 14 |
Vinni (Komet) |
Freighter |
Norway |
07-12-1940 |
5.180 |
Sunk |
| 15 |
Komata (Komet) |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
07-12-1940 |
3.900 |
Sunk |
| 16 |
Triadic (Orion) |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
08-12-1940 |
6.380 |
Sunk |
| 17 |
Triaster (Orion) |
Freighter |
United Kingdom |
09-12-1940 |
6.030 |
Sunk |
| Subtotal Orion & Komet Prizes |
43.155 |
|
| Total Orion Prizes (adjusted) |
86.493 |
|
| Notes to: |
| 1 |
Sunk by gunfire and a torpedo. 40 prisoners. Meeting with Winnetou. Mining of Auckland port (New Zealand) |
| 2 |
Important cargo. Sent to Bourdeaux with Hasby’s prisoners. Torpedoed and Sunk by HMS Truant, off Bilbao. |
| 3 |
– |
| 4 |
Sunk by gunfire and torpedoes. 38 deaths, 19 shipwreackers taken on board. Orion nicknamed ‘Black Raider’ by Australian press. Meeting with Regensburg at Aiglinglap athollon (Marshall Islands). |
| 5 |
Sunk by explosive charges. Meeting with Regensburg, Kulmerland and HK Komet at Lamotrek athollon (Carolinas Islands). Regensburg dispatched to Japan with the prissoners. |
| 6 |
Sunk by gunfire after failure of five torpedoes. Orion arrives safely Bourdeaux disguissed of spanish Contramaestre Casado. |
| 7 |
Mined off Auckland. |
| 8 |
Mined off Auckland. |
| 9 |
Mined off Auckland. |
| 10 |
Mined off Auckland. |
| 11 |
In association with Komet. Sunk by gunfire (Komet). Some prisoners and 200 sheeps taken on board. Drastic change of dieta in Orion, Komet and Kulmerland. |
| 12 |
Sunk by gunfire. 310 prisoners (36 women among them) and only one dead. Some days later the 310 prisoners are landed at Nauru (Salomon Islands). |
| 13 |
Sunk by gunfire and torpedoes. |
| 14 |
Sunk by explosive charges. |
| 15 |
Sunk by explosive charges. |
| 16 |
Sunk by explosive charges. |
| 17 |
Sunk by explosive charges. Some days of rest at Emirau, near Kavieng (New Eire, Bismarck Islands). 512 prisoners landed. Shore bombardment of British Phosphate facilities at Nauru Island. End of Komet and Orion teaming. Orion meets Ole Jacob (Atlantis’s prey) at Lamutrek. Some days of rest and ship repair at Maug Island (Marianas). Munsterland joined them, with some sailors of Admiral Graf Spee scaped of a camp on Argentina. Orion gets a Nakajima Hydro to replace the Arado. New meeting with Ole Jacob and Alstertor, a blockade runner from Germany with a new Arado, food and 14.000 bottles of German beer (Beck’s, is it believed). Orion scape of Cornwall in an almost miracolous way. |
