The German Raider That Terrified the Allies: HSK Pinguin
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Ladies and gentlemen, I'm your friend Mike Brady for Ocean Liner Designs, and this is the story of the Raider Penguin.
The most successful of the Creeks Marina's auxiliary cruisers was a humble merchant ship herself, a kind of floating Swiss Army knife.
Penguin had won her first victory.
The mining of a British freighter and an American ship in Bass Strait, said the Daily Telegraph, is a final and disastrous proof of the inadequacy of our own coastal patrols.
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1940: Britain's vast fleet is tied down fighting German and Italian submarines and surface warships from the Atlantic to the Med. Carrying on the country's experience in crafting effective auxiliary cruisers, the Kriegsmarine deploys a 'first wave' of hunters disguised as harmless merchant vessels. The most deadly is known as 'Piguin'; her official designation is Ship 33, a converted merchantman which proves adept at bring ruin to Allied ships. Her skipper, Ernst-Felix Kruder, is a gifted mine-layer who has big plans for the remote but important shipping channels of the south Australian coast. With Pinguin at hsi command and a choice crew, Kruder will lead his ship with ruthless efficiency - until a series of mistakes leads to his catastrophic downfall. It's one of the great maritime sagas of the second world war; this is the story of the raider 'Pinguin'. Sources: https://www.uboatarchive.net/Int/PinguinINT.htm https://archive.org/details/hsk5ga1940/page/n1/mode/2up https://www.geocities.ws/pentagon/2833/kriegsmarine/raider/pinguin/pinguin.html https://militaryhistorynow.com/2022/09/26/distant-tempest-germanys-forgotten-war-against-allied-shipping-in-the-pacific-2/ https://www.tracesofwar.com/persons/34667/Kr%C3%BCder-Ernst-Felix.htm Duffy, J. P. (2001). Hitler's secret pirate fleet : The deadliest ships of world war ii. Robinson, S. (2016). False Flags: Disguised German raiders of World War two Oceanliner Designs explores the design, construction, engineering and operation of history’s greatest vessels– from Titanic to Queen Mary and from the Empress of Ireland to the Lusitania. Join maritime researcher and illustrator Michael Brady as he tells the stories behind some of history's most famous ocean liners and machines! Click the link to subscribe | https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCsE8PTncfn2Vga48jH46HnQ?sub_confirmation=1 #ships #sinking #disaster #titanic #wrecks #exploration #history #adventure #design #engineering #mairitime #safety #vessels #sailing #documentary #story #oceanlinerdesigns #navy #ww2 #military 0:00 Intro 01:28 Origins 07:27 The Mission Begins 12:10 Atlantic Victories 14:46 The Indian Ocean 23:16 Mining Australian Ports 30:12 Antarctic Carnage 33:55 The Final Stand