KMS Komet Technical Information
Name: KMS Komet, Schiff 45, Hilfskreuzer VII.
Type: light auxiliary cruiser.
Ex-name: Ems, freighter.
Owner: North German Lloyd.
Builder: Deschimag, Werk Weser, Bremen.
Date of construction: 1937.
Converted by: How. H.
Date of conversion: 1939-40.
Date of commission: 2 June 1940.
Tonnage: 3,287.
Displacement: 7,500 tons.
Length: 115m (Lloyds Register).
Beam: 15.3m.
Draught: 6.5m.
Freeboard: 6.8m.
Fuel type: oil.
Fuel capacity: 2,485 tons.
Speed: 16 knots.
Range: 5,100 nautical miles at 9 knots.
Cruising endurance: 236 days at 9 knots.
Maximum horse power: 3,900, turbines.
Propulsion: two 6-cylinder-Diesel.
Propellers: 1.
Number of decks: 1.
Number of holds: 4.
Number of compartments: 7.
Crew: 270.
Aircraft carried: two Ar 196A-1s.
Motor launch carried: one LS 2 (Meteorit).
Mines carried: 30.
Armament: six 5.9in (6x1), two 37mm (1x2), four 20mm (4x1), six 21-inch torpedo tubes (2x2, 2x1).
Length of cruise: 516 days, 3 July 1940 to 30 November 1941; 8 days, 6 October 1942 to 14 October 1942.
Ships sunk or taken:
| Nationality | Type | Name | Tonnage | Date | Result |
| First Cruise | |||||
| Great Britain | Freighter | Australind | 5,020 | 14 August 1941 | Sunk |
| The Netherlands | Freighter | Kota-Nopan | 7,322 | 17 August 1941 | Prize |
| Great Britain | Freighter | Devon | 9,036 | 19 August 1941 | Sunk |
| Total 3 ships | 21,378 | ||||
| Ships sunk by Orion and Komet 25 November to 8 December 1940: | |||||
| Great Britain | Freighter | Holmwood | 546 | 25 November 1940 | Sunk |
| Great Britain | Passenger | Rangitane | 16,712 | 27 November 1940 | Sunk |
| Great Britain | Freighter | Triona | 4,413 | 6 December 1940 | Sunk |
| Norway | Freighter | Vinni (Komet) | 5,181 | 7 December 1940 | Sunk |
| Great Britain | Freighter | Komata (Komet) | 3,900 | 7 December 1940 | Sunk |
| Great Britain | Freighter | Triadic (Orion) | 6,378 | 8 December 1940 | Sunk |
| Great Britain | Freighter | Triaster (Orion) | 6,032 | 8 December 1940 | Sunk |
| Total 7 ships | 43,162 | ||||
| No ships were sunk during second cruise. | |||||
| Grand total 6.5 ships | 41,294.5 | ||||