The ship was launched on May 29, 1935 at DeSchiMAG in Bremen and was put into service on February 8, 1936. It displaced 3,010 tons, was 112.9 m long and 13.5 m wide, and had a 4.3 m draft. Intended for training naval anti-aircraft artillerymen, the Brummer was equipped with changing armaments at different times. These consisted of four to eight 10.5 cm AA guns in double mounts, which were stabilized to the horizon plane by an automatic angle control , two 8.8 cm AA guns, four to eight 3.7 cm AA guns Guns and four 2 cm anti-aircraft guns. In addition, there were up to 450 mines with the appropriate mine- laying devices , since the Brummer was to be used primarily as a mine- layer in the event of war. The regular crew consisted of 215 to 226 men; In addition, there were up to 138 participants in the anti-aircraft weapons courses. The ship was equipped with two new types of high pressure steam turbines and also served as a test vehicle for these turbines, which were to be used in the new destroyers. On the Brummer , the turbines proved to be very reliable, while on the destroyers they then caused a lot of trouble. The ship had a top speed of 23 knots and a range of 2,400 nautical miles at a cruising speed of 15 knots .
Mission history
Pictorial representation of the Brummer
After the Brummer had undertaken training service and trips abroad in the Baltic Sea from the spring of 1937 as part of the Naval Air Defense and Coastal Artillery School in Swinoujscie , she was used to lay mines in the Baltic Sea after the start of the war in September 1939 , and then from January 1940 as a trafficker also in the Baltic Sea.
At the beginning of April 1940 the ship was used as part of the Weser Exercise company to transport troops to Norway . The Brummer ran on April 14th together with the fleet companion F 5 and the torpedo boats Falke and Jaguar as the second crew transport with 812 men from Frederikshavn to Oslo . On the return trip the British torpedoed submarine HMS Sterlet the Brummer that it lost its entire bow. After nine hours of unsuccessful rescue attempts, the ship capsized and sank in the morning hours of April 15, 1940.
Siegfried Breyer: Special and special ships of the Kriegsmarine (= naval arsenal with international naval news and naval overview. Vol. 30). Volume 1. Podzun-Pallas, Wölfersheim-Berstadt 1995, ISBN 3-7909-0523-2 .
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