Orion's HRCI Accredited training program is designed to educate TA, HR, Hiring Managers and other Key Stakeholders on all phases of Military Hiring, to.Hilfskreuzer (Auxiliary Cruiser / Raider)Launched on March 2. Blohm & Voss. Werft in Hamburg for the Hamburg- Amerika (HAPAG) line, the 7,0. Kurmark, had five sister ships, the Bitterfeld, Uckermark, Nordmark, Strassfurt and the Neumark, which was converted into the Hilfskreuzer Widder. Blohm & Voss geared- turbine engines, producing 6,2. Her engines, which had served as half of the power- plant of the 2. Atlantic HAPAG liner New York for over ten years, before serving the freighter Kurmark for ten more, were unreliable, and were a constant source of problems for the Orion’s engineers. Classified as Schiff 3. Auxiliary Cruiser HSK 1 by Blohm & Voss in Hamburg between the Spring and December of 1. Armed with six 1.
L/4. 5 C/1. 6 guns, one Creusot- Schneider 7. L/3. 5 cannon, one twin 3. C/3. 0 L/8. 3 Flak- mounting and four single 2. Corporate publications. Orion's key publications are available for you to download. For hard copy versions, or to receive a copy of a document older than seven years. C/3. 0 L/6. 5 Flak guns, Fitted with six 5. She also carried one Arado Ar- 1. A- 1 seaplane and 2. Commissioned into the Kriegsmarine by the thirty- eight- year- old Korvettenkapit. Georg- Wilhelm Schultz) which had been assigned to escort her, but as it had failed to appear by the morning of April 7, it was clear that it was not to be counted on.* The U- 6. Herjangsfjord, near Narvik, a week later, on April 1. On April 8, the Orion narrowly avoided becoming embroiled in a clash between a group of German destroyers and a British squadron, and later that day, four British destroyers were sighted escorting the minelayer HMS Teviot Bank. Two of them closed with the raider to inspect her more closely, but with crewmen in civilian clothing visible on deck, the cook coming out to stare at them, and a seaman emptying a load of kitchen waste overboard, her disguise held out. Commander Weyher’s maxim, painted on a crossbeam in the wheelhouse read, . Werner Hartmann) would provide his escort, but as she too was withdrawn, he set course for Jan Mayen Island, from where he planned to hug the pack ice off Greenland, and sail through the Denmark Strait. Arriving off the coast of Greenland, on April 9, where Dutch ships were rarely to be found, and being informed that the real Beemsterdijk was reported to be in West Indian waters, Weyher decided to alter the Orion’s identity. Working parties immediately set to the task of changing the Beemsterdijk into the anonymous 2,7. Russian Sovtorgflot repair ship,Soviet, out of Odessa, on her way from Murmansk to Vladivostock. On April 1. 1, as she cleared the Denmark Strait and approached the open sea, the Orion ran into the teeth of a full scale Force 1. Atlantic storm, which did not ease off until after nightfall on April 1. Greenland, she broke through into the Atlantic. By April 1. 4, the Orion was beyond the area in which a Russian naval auxiliary might reasonably be found, and so once again, the crew set about the task of giving their ship another new face. Raising the funnel and lowering the masts, the profile of the ship’s superstructure was altered with timber and canvas, as painters changed her colour scheme, adding realistic touches of . Her cargo of over 2,0. She was finally declared a total constructive loss and after the remaining cargo and fittings were removed was broken up where she lay. Abstract: Ship arrivals and departures - Port of Auckland. Vessel Name: BALTANNICVessel ID: 5. Vessel Type: Steamship. Tonnage: 1,7. 40 gross. Engine: Steamship. Abstract: Visited Auckland thirteen times between November 1. March 1. 8 1. 94. Knowing that extra caution would now be required in approaching the as yet unidentified ship, Weyher had the Orion slow down so as to allow the stranger, a heavily- laden freighter of some tonnage, to pass astern. With the ship within 3,0. When a second warning shot also failed to produce a reaction, Weyher ordered his gunners to fire one full salvo, but placed short. Moments after a seaman was seen frantically racing aft to run up the Norwegian flag, the vessel identified herself as the 8,7. Norwegian motor freighter, Tropic Sea, and surrendered without a fight or using her wireless. The boarding party, under Leutnant Raschke, reported that the Chr. Taking on 8. 00 tons of fuel, Weyher left 4. Coral Sea. On July 3. Arado, but found nothing. Concerned that he had as yet received no confirmation of the dispatch of his prize Tropic Sea / Kurmark from the SKL, Weyher decided to notify them of her current estimated position by devious means, on the international waveband, to the German naval attach. A former German possession, lost to the British during World War One, Nauru was rich in phosphate, exporting almost 8. As he was the senior commander, Weyher and Pschunder more or less had to agree to what had become a pet project for the Komet’s captain. On the following day, November 2. Spotting a small vessel off Chatham Island, the Komet rapidly closed in on her, ordering her not to use her wireless and to stop. Her captain, reluctant to risk the lives of the women and children on board his ship, complied immediately, and the boarding party identified her as the 5. New Zealand Holm Line coaster, Holmwood, with a crew of seventeen and twelve passengers, including four women and five children, taking a cargo of 1,3. Lyttelton, New Zealand. Transferring her crew and passengers onto the Komet, as many of the sheep as could be accommodated, were taken, with some difficulty, onto all three German ships, with the Orion taking one hundred and ninety- two of them. As the sheep settled into their new, and very temporary quarters on the raider’s afterdeck gangway, the ship’s carpenters assembled four sturdy chopping blocks for the eight designated slaughterers, who set to work immediately to clear the gangway in one afternoon. While the decks ran with blood, Eyssen and Weyher discussed the possibility of using the coaster as an auxiliary minelayer, but finally rejected the idea, as her maximum speed was only 9 knots, and so, it was decided to sink her. Opening her sea cocks, the boarding party then left the little coaster to the mercies of the Komet’s gunners, who put in some much- needed target practice. For thirty minutes they shot the little steamer to pieces, turning her blazing wreck into a funeral pyre for the thousand or so unfortunate sheep that had remained on board and went down with her. On Eyssen’s orders, the horse had been put down before the shooting began. While the crew initially welcomed the fresh meat, not surprisingly, in no time at all, they came to loathe the daily diet of mutton. Receiving fresh instructions from the SKL, the Orion was ordered to carry out her long overdue engine overhaul, and then return home, via the South Atlantic. Her raiding days were clearly numbered in the new operational scheme of things, as she was now the only cruiser remaining with old oil- fired boilers, that would always be dependent on a plentiful supply of fuel being available. The brand- new former Norwegian tanker, Ole Jacob, taken as a prize in the Indian Ocean by the raider Atlantis the previous November, and now in Kobe, was assigned to supply her, with the Annaliese Essberger taking over in the Atlantic. In the early hours of the morning on November 2. Orion’s lookouts, and reported by lamp signals to the Komet, which circled around her in order to catch her between the two raiders, while the unarmed Kulmerland withdrew, out of the line of fire. Although not certain whether he was looking at a large cargo ship or a warship, when his radio operators reported to him that the vessel was transmitting distress calls, stating that she was being approached by a suspicious ship, Weyher had a signal morsed to her, ordering her to immediately cease all radio transmissions, and to stop. Now clearly visible as a large passenger liner with two funnels, the vessel was transfixed in the mist between the Orion and the Komet, clearly silhouetted by the glare of the Orion’s powerful searchlights, which reflected off the misty rain, giving the Komet’s gunners an easy task when ordered to open fire, straddling her with their first salvo. The Orion’s gunners, unable to clearly see the target because of their own reflected light, were wide of the mark. Shortly after the awkward question had been so successfully deflected, the seemingly satisfied officials returned to their ship. The Orion, on which the work of stripping, cleaning and repairing engines and boilers continued in the punishing heat, escaped inspection. Flooding several of her tanks, causing the shipto heel over, enabling large numbers of men to scrape and clean the waterline and renew the red lead paint, others, in diving suits, inspected the underside of the hull. The Marana Maru departed on January 1. Regensburg returned, with one hundred tons of drinking water, fresh fruit and vegetables. The overhaul was largely complete by the end of the month, and on February 1, the 6,4. M. Back in Germany, he later lost his life while undergoing surgery. Early on February 5, the Orion weighed anchor, only to find that having been moored alongside the Ole Jacob for a month, their anchor cables had become entwined with one another. But by midday, she was ready to put to sea to test her reconditioned engines, under the watchful eyes in the new seaplane. By late afternoon, Weyher received a report from his Chief, Kolsch, stating that with the completion of the refit, they would now be capable of remaining at sea for six months longer than originally envisaged, and that, despite having only three boilers operational, the ship would be capable of a top speed of 1. Departing the anchorage with the Ole Jacob for her new area of operations on February 6, resembling a French passenger freighter, Weyher had the Orion’s gunners conduct practice exercises, while Leutnant Klaus Von Winterfeldt practiced take- offs and landings in the Nakajima, which lived up to it’s reputation of being well suited to the prevailing Pacific conditions. Bidding farewell to the Regensburg and the M. Nothing new here’.
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