German auxiliary cruiser Widder
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The Nazi German auxiliary cruiser Widder (Ram (male sheep), constellation Aries) was a 7,800 ton merchant raider of the Second World War.
She was the only German auxiliary cruiser to survive the war, after one 1940 cruise in which she sank ten vessels to a total of almost sixty thousand tons.
Her captain, Kapitan zur See Helmuth von Ruckteschell, was one of only two German naval commanders convicted of war crimes at the end of the war.
Originally the liner Neumark of the Hamburg-America Line, she was rechristened this after her cruises, and was used as a repair ship in Norway. After the war she was taken into British service as Ulysses, then sold back to Germany as Fechenheim in 1950 before being wrecked off Bergen in 1955.
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