Between 26 December and 7 January, "Admiral Scheer" rendezvoused with the supply ships "Nordmark" and "Eurofeld", the auxiliary cruiser , and the prizes "Duquesa" and "Storstad". The raiders transferred some 600 prisoners to "Storstad" while they refueled from "Nordmark" and "Eurofeld". Between 18 and 20 January "Admiral Scheer" captured three Allied merchant ships totalling , including the Norwegian oil tanker "Sandefjord". She spent Christmas 1940 at sea in the mid-Atlantic, several hundred miles from Tristan da Cunha, before making a foray into the Indian Ocean in February 1941.