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Contents 1 Automedon 2 King City 3 City of Exeter 4 Use of three different names 5 Ernst Bauer ??? 6 WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

[edit] Automedon

What does this mean :

Obliging the ship's lone female passenger...

yes, it sounds vague, possibly dodgy. Does this mean taken to Atlantis as prisoner, or raped, or what? References?

The German crew were attempting to find women's clothes for the female passenger to wear (source: the book mentioned below). However, re-reading the chapter on Automedon, there's no mention of a woman passenger. Perhaps two unrelated incidents are being confused.

Yes, it does sound dodgy, so I've deleted it.194.176.105.40 16:32, 20 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] King City

The article contains a link to King City, a disambiguation page about four North American communities. Could someone please add relevant info to the dab page, and create a separate article (or red-link) for the King City referred to in this article - I'm not sufficiently familiar with this subject to be able to do so. Mindmatrix 02:50, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

Never mind, I did it myself. According to this, it was a British collier built in 1928 and destroyed in August 1940. Mindmatrix 14:39, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

On second thought, I'm not sure if King City (naval vessel) is appropriate. Should it be British collier King City, something else entirely, or does it even merit a link? Mindmatrix 15:47, 21 September 2005 (UTC)

[edit] City of Exeter

I changed "Captain" to "Master". On second thought, it might have stood. Comment? Trekphiler 05:53, 26 November 2005 (UTC)

Many parts of this article are either a direct copy or a close paraphrase from the book "Atlantis, the story of a German surface raider" by Ulrich Mohr and A. V. Sellwood. Mohr was the aide-de-camp to the captain of Atlantis, Bernhard Rogge (who contributes a foreword to the book). The book is certainly the most authoritative source available for this topic, but some sections of the article are uncomfortably close to the text of the book, in particular the section "Automedon and its Secret Cargo" and the last half of the section "U-68, U-126, a Nightmare, and HMS Devonshire".

I have a second impression of this book, published in 1955. Perhaps the original author can clarify if this was indeed the source, and if not provide a list of sources they used.

Orpheus 18:12, 9 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Use of three different names

While this ship had three different names, the article is entitled "German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis". Listing the names by which this ship was known in the first paragraph is sufficient. It detracts from the article to continuously, and seemingly randomly, switch among the three names. Would it be acceptable to refer to the ship as "Atlantis" in all paragraphs subsequent to the first one? Silverchemist 01:24, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Done Socrates2008 (Talk) 12:25, 20 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Ernst Bauer ???

The name links to an american scientist born in 1928. Not the aforementioned U-Boat captain. Any thoughts? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.130.135.105 (talk) 22:25, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] WikiProject Military history/Assessment/Tag & Assess 2008

Article reassessed and graded as start class. --dashiellx (talk) 11:09, 6 May 2008 (UTC)