Ships of Deschimag
- AG Weser, 1929, Passenger ship Bremen for shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd . Won Blue Riband 1929 and 1933 for fastes Atlantic Ocean crossing; The Bremen escaped after beginning of war from New York to Bremerhaven; burnt out 1940 in Bremerhaven, probably by arson
- AG Weser; 1937, Passenger-cargo ship Scharnhorst, 1942 rebuilt to Japanese auxiliary aircraft carrier Shinyo, sunk 1944 by US u-boat
- AG Weser; Passenger-cargo ship Gneisenau
- AG Weser, 1936, Whale factory ship Terje Viken for United Whalers Ltd. London, worldwide greatest factory ship; March 1941 sunk by German u-boats U47 and U99 in North Atlantic Ocean (allied convoy OB 293)
- AG Weser, 1937, German whale factory ship Unitas for Jürgens-Van den Bergh company (whale hunting vessels were built by Bremer Vulkan); as Japanese Nissan Maru II scrapped in Taiwan 1987
- AG Weser, 1937, Merchant ship Kandelfels, in WW II used as auxiliary cruiser Pinguin, 1941 sunk by British cruiser HMS Cornwall
- AG Weser, 1938, Merchant ship Ems for shipping company Norddeutscher Lloyd, in WW II used as auxiliary cruiser Komet, 1942 sunk by planes and ships of Royal Air Force and Royal Navy
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