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SS Uhenfels
SS ''Uhenfels'' was a steam merchant ship operated initially by the German shipping firm ''Deutsche Dampfschiffahrts-Gesellschaft Hansa'', and then shortly after the start of the Second World War by the British Elder Dempster Lines Ltd, as SS ''Empire Ability''. She was sunk under this name in 1941 by a German U-boat.
==Construction, early career and capture==
The ''Uhenfels'' was built in 1931 at the Bremen yards of Deschimag Werk Weser, being completed for service with DDG Hansa in March that year.〔 Built as one of four early heavy lift ships for DDG Hansa, she was designed to carry locomotives and other large cargo. She operated for several years under this name, until the outbreak of the Second World War saw her outside Germany. She made a number of attempts to sail back, before making her third attempt, departing Lourenço Marques on 13 October 1939, bound for Germany and disguised as the Dutch merchant ''Aagtekerk''.〔 She was carrying opium, worth £250,000, as well as cotton and hides.〔 Three of her crew deserted before the ship sailed from Lourenço Marques. They made their way to Zululand, where they were arrested by the police and brought to Maritzburg. After being fined, they were interned in South Africa for the duration of the war.
During her crossing of the Atlantic she ran into Force K, a number of British ships that had been deployed in search of the German commerce raider the ''Admiral Graf Spee''. Attached to the force was the aircraft carrier , whose aircraft had spotted another disguised German merchant the previous month, when on 9 October they had sighted the German tanker ''Altmark''. The ''Altmark'' had been disguised as the American ''Delmar'', and consequently had escaped unmolested.〔 The ''Uhenfels'' was not so fortunate. Detected on 5 November the aircraft reported the German ship, and the destroyer was directed to secure the German merchant. The crew attempted to scuttle the ship but a boarding party from the ''Hereward'' was able to prevent this.〔 The captured ship was brought into Freetown the following day.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Empire Ability )〕 The 61 crew were marched off to a prison camp ashore, defiantly singing Nazi songs. By the time she had been captured the ''Uhenfels'' was running short of food.〔 ''Uhenfels'' was then taken to Gibraltar for drydocking and inspection, arriving on 18 March. She arrived at London on 5 April 1940, the first captured German vessel to arrive in port there. Her cargo consisted maize, palm kernels and other foodstuffs from the West Indies. She was also carrying 122 tanned sheepskins, which were offered for sale by public tender "in prize".
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