HSK3 Widder
1940
(Rhenania RSKM-14)
- Class: Schiff 21
- Displacement: 7,851 tons
- Dimensions: 477 x 63 x 28 ft.
- Machinery: 1-shaft geared turbines, S.H.P. 6,200 = 14 knots
- Armament: 6-5.9 in., 4-37 mm. A.A., 2-20 mm. A.A. guns; 4-21 in. T.T.(2x2);
2 aircraft; 60 mines
- Complement: 363
- Builder: Howaldtwerke, Kiel
- Launched: 1929
- Actions: Built originally as Neumark for Hamburg Amerika Line. Commissioned 30 Nov 1939, sailed 6 May 1940. Returned to Brest 31 Oct 1940 after destroying 10 ships of 58,645 grt in 179 day cruise. Floating workshop in Norwegian waters, 1941. Postwar to Britain, 1947 renamed Ulysses, then to Germany 1953 as Fechenheim.
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