Pinguin was a German auxiliary cruiser which served as a commerce raider in the Second World War. The Pinguin was known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 33, and designated HSK 5. The most successful comm
Pinguin in the Indian Ocean in 1941.
Photograph of a He 114 floatplane
SMS Schlesien
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SMS Schlesien was one of five Deutschland-class pre-dreadnought battleships built for the German Kaiserliche Marine between 1904 and 1906. Named after the German province of Silesia, Schlesien was lai
German auxiliary cruiser Pinguin
…by the Kriegsmarine and converted to a warship by DeSchiMAG, Bremen. Her main armament of six 5.9-inch guns was taken from the obsolete battleship Schlesien and covered by steel shutters fitted with counterweights. The secondary armament consisted of a 75 mm gun, a twin 37 mm anti-aircraft gun and two twin…
Schlesien before World War I
Schlesien in the Panama Canal in 1937
Schlesien fires at Hel Fortified Area.
Schlesien (background) and Schleswig-Holstein (right side-foreground) in Westerplatte following the occupation of the port