PART 2
In July 1935 the newly created Atlas Levante-Linie AG (Atlas) of Bremen joined with Deutsche Levante-Linie Hamburg (DLLH) to operate a combined service. Two new ships, named Cairo and Ankara, were ordered by Atlas and delivered in 1936-37 but did not survive World War II.
CAIRO AND ANKARA
was delivered by Krupps’ Germania yard at Kiel in December 1936. From November 1939, known as ‘Schiff 23’, she was employed as an icebreaker and then as a ‘Trade Protection Cruiser’ with the designation (HSK VI), being used as an escort vessel for coastal convoys in the Baltic Sea. It was planned that she would be used as
