KMS ORION (Merchant Raider)
Orion (HSK-1) was an auxiliary cruiser of Nazi Germany’s Kriegsmarine which operated as a merchant raider in World War II.Blohm & Voss built her in Hamburg in 1930–31 as the cargo ship Kurmark. The navy requisitioned her at the start of World War II, had her converted into the auxiliary cruiser Orion, and commissioned her on 9 December 1939. Known to the Kriegsmarine as Schiff 36, her Royal Navy designation was Raider A. She was named after the constellation Orion.
One of Germany’s first auxiliary cruisers in World War II, Orion left Germany on 6 April 1940, under the command of Korvettenkapitän (later Fregattenkapitän) Kurt Weyher. Disguised as a neutral ship she passed south through the Atlantic Ocean, where she attacked and sank Haxby, a 5,207 GRT freighter.
Orion returned to Bordeaux in occupied France on 23 August 1941. After 510 days and 127,337 nautical miles (235,828 km) at sea she had sunk ten ships with a combined tonnage of 62,915 gross register tons (GRT), plus two more (totalling 21,125 GRT) in cooperation with Komet.
De-commissioned as a commerce raider, the ship was renamed Hektor in 1944 and was used as artillery training ship. In January 1945 she was again renamed Orion and was used to take refugees from Germany’s eastern provinces across the Baltic Sea to ports in northern Germany and occupied Denmark. On her way to Copenhagen on 4 May 1945, after she had picked up the crew of the old battleship Schlesien, Orion was hit by two bombs dropped by aircraft of the Soviet 51st Mine-Torpedo Aviation Regiment off Swinemünde. The crew managed to beach the fiercely burning ship on a sandbank, but more than 150 passengers and crew were killed. The hulk was scrapped in 1952.
Armament :
6 x single german 150mm
1 x single german 88mm
1 x dual german 37mm
2 x dual german 20mm
2 x single japanese 7,7mm
5 fixed underwater 533mm torpedo tubes
2 seaplanes (each plane carry two 50kg bombs)
She can reach 16,2 kn as maximum speed
This Merchant raider require mods : https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/17hQbP39Hv5T-aORXFt3v-PeZMgSDQC4F?usp=sharing
I have use the hull c3 of Marcovz for this ship
