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The ''Hansa'' was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany's ''Kriegsmarine'' used during World War II. She was known to the ''KM'' as HSK 5(II) (''i.e.'', the second of that designation; the first was ''Pinguin''), or also as Schiff 5. She was not given a raider letter by the Royal Navy as she did not enter active service as a commerce raider. The last German vessel to be converted into an auxiliary cruiser, the Hansa was named after the Hanseatic League. ==History== ''Hansa'' was originally conceived as the cargo ship ''Glengarry''. She was taken over by the Germans during the occupation of Denmark, while under construction at Burmeister & Wain in Copenhagen. She was temporary renamed ''Zielschiff Meersburg'' and served as a target ship for the 27th U-boat flotilla. In the winter of 1942/43, she was sent to the Wilton shipyard in Rotterdam, and later to Blohm & Voss, Hamburg, where she was converted into an auxiliary cruiser. She bore the designation HSK 5(II), reflecting the number of the ship yard she was converted in. De-commissioned as a ''Hilfskreuzer'' in February 1944 the ship became a ''Kadettenschulschiff'' (cadet training ship). From September 1944 to May 1945 she participated in the Baltic Sea evacuations, transporting over 12,000 soldiers and civilians at a time. The Hansa was the last ship, which escaped from Hela (pol. Hel). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「German auxiliary cruiser Hansa」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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