German auxiliary cruiser Hansa
- Displacement
- 19,200 long tons (19,508 t)
- Length
- 153 m (502 ft)
- Beam
- 20.1 m (65.9 ft)
- Speed
- 20.5 knots (38 km/h, 23.6 mph)
- Complement
- 400
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
Service
- as Glengarry2,193 days of the war
- as Hansa12 February 1944 — 1945568 days of the war
- 1945 — 1971244 days of the war
- Name
- German auxiliary cruiser Hansa
- Builder
- Burmester & Wain, Copenhagen
- Launched
- 6 November 1939
- Commissioned
- 12 February 1944
- Fate
- Scrapped 1971 (1971)
- Status
- Scrapped
Specifications
- Displacement, standard
- 19,200 long tons (19,508 t)
- Length
- 153 m (502 ft)
- Beam
- 20.1 m (65.9 ft)
- Draught
- 8.7 m (28.5 ft)
- Speed
- 20.5 knots (38 km/h, 23.6 mph)
- Range
- 65,000 nmi (120,380 km)
- Complement
- 400
- Main gun
- 150 mm (5.9 in)
German auxiliary cruiser Hansa was a auxiliary cruiser built for the Royal Danish Navy. She was built by Burmester & Wain, Copenhagen. She entered service on 12 February 1944, having been launched on 6 November 1939.
Displacement was 19,200 long tons. She measured 153 m (502 ft) long with a beam of 20.1 m (66 ft). Her designed speed was 20.5 knots, and she carried a complement of 400.
Her main battery was eight 150 mm (5.9 in) guns.
She served with the Royal Danish Navy as Glengarry. She then passed to the Kriegsmarine, serving as Hansa from 12 February 1944. She then passed to the Royal Navy from 1945. She was in commission for 3,005 days of the Second World War.
She was broken up for scrap in 1971.
Written from the harvested record. Every figure above is sourced; the wording is this site's own.
Armament and machinery
Armament and machinery
- Armament
- 8 × 15 cm SK L/45
- 1 × 10.5 cm SK L/45
- 6 × 3.7 cm SK C/30 gun
- 36 × 2 cm C/30 AA guns (2 × 4, 28 × 1)
- Aircraft
- One
Sources
- Facts harvested from German auxiliary cruiser Hansa on Wikipedia. Figures only — no wording is taken from it.