Jaguar (ship, 1928)
 The Jaguar JA 1934
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The Jaguar was a torpedo boat of the Reich and Kriegsmarine and belonged to the predator class . The boat was initially used in the context of the Spanish Civil War . During the Second World War , Jaguar laid mines in the North Sea and was entrusted with various escort and security tasks.
The Jaguar sank on June 14, 1944 in the Allied bombing of the French port of Le Havre .
history
construction
The torpedo boat was under the hull number 113, together with the leopard on May 4, 1927 at the Navy shipyard in Wilhelmshaven placed on Kiel . Both boats as well as its sister ships Tiger and Lynx expired on 15 March 1928 from the stack . Here held Vice Admiral Ivan Oldekop the baptismal for all four boats. The christening of the Jaguar was carried out by the former commandant of the gunboat Jaguar , Rear Admiral a. D. Harry ward .
In service from 1929 to 1931
The Jaguar was put into service on June 1, 1929. This was followed by test drives until July 28 of the same year and then the training drives with the 3rd torpedo boat semi-flotilla. From April to June 1930, the Jaguar took part in the fleet's Mediterranean voyage , including in Vigo , Lisbon and Split . In the summer of 1931, the flotilla made a summer voyage to Norwegian waters. The Jaguar was decommissioned on September 25, 1931 .
In service from 1932 to 1937
The second service period of the Jaguar began on October 1, 1932. The torpedo boat was again subordinated to the 3rd Torpedo Half Flotilla, renamed the 3rd Torpedo Boat Flotilla from October 1, 1935. On September 18, 1933, the Jaguar sank the Niobe sailing training ship, which capsized on July 26, 1932 in a white gust in the Fehmarnbelt . From August to September 1936 the jaguar was in Spanish waters. There, at the beginning of the civil war, she was entrusted with the evacuation of German and other citizens who had to be brought to French ports. Another brief deployment took place in November / December 1936. On March 16, 1937, the boat was decommissioned in Wilhelmshaven.
In service from 1937 to 1944
The last commissioning of the Jaguar took place on June 3, 1937. The boat served until April 1939 as a school boat at the ship artillery school . During this time the Jaguar also took part in the fleet parade in front of Miklós Horthy and Adolf Hitler on the occasion of the launch of the Prinz Eugen on August 22, 1938.
At the beginning of the Second World War, the Jaguar belonged to the 6th T-Flotilla. In this, the torpedo boat took part in mining companies in the North Sea . It was also entrusted with the conduct of trade wars and with escort and security tasks. Together with the sea eagle , the jaguar managed to land a total of six merchant ships in the Skagerrak from December 14 to 16, 1939 . The Jaguar was then taken to a shipyard for a general overhaul and was therefore not yet available for the Weser Exercise company . However, she was used in April 1940 in the Kattegat for submarine hunting. On April 14, the Jaguar secured the artillery training ship Brummer on the voyage to Norway together with the fleet attendant F 5 , whereby the Brummer was sunk by the Sterlet .
At Juno in June 1940, the Jaguar was used to escort the battleships used . Then in June 1940 it took over the security of the Nürnberg and Scharnhorst on the journey from Norway to Germany. In July and August 1940, further escorts followed in the North Sea. During one of these trips, the Luchs was lost to a torpedo hit. The jaguar and the polecat took 53 survivors from her sister ship. Until the beginning of September 1940 the Jaguar was involved in laying several mine barriers and on September 9, 1940 moved with the 6th T-Flotilla to the western area.
Up until March 1941, further missions followed for reconnaissance, escort protection and mining companies. In March 1941, Jaguar took over escort for the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, which were returning from Operation Berlin under Günther Lütjens . Before that, on February 16, 1941, the 5th and 6th T-Flotilla had been merged to form the new 5th T-Flotilla. On March 23, the Jaguar was moved from Cherbourg to Norway together with Iltis . The lost Jaguar at the height of Egersund their oars and had to be dragged from the sister ship. After the sea falcon took over the crew of the Jaguar , the boat was towed to Stavanger , where it was makeshift repairs. The Jaguar drove via Kiel to Wilhelmshaven and from there took over the security for the Flakjäger 21 and the Z-ship Python as far as Rotterdam . The boat was then in the shipyard from April 20 to May 16, 1941. In mid-June 1941 it took on escort duties in the Norwegian area. On August 24th, the Jaguar was released from the Nord group to serve as a school boat until December 1941.
In February 1942, the 5th T-Flotilla was involved in the Cerberus company as escort for the battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau and the Prinz Eugen between Cap Gris-Nez and German waters . The torpedo boat was damaged by a bomb attack, with three seriously and nine slightly injured. After the repairs in Rotterdam, the Jaguar again took over the escort for Prince Eugen and Admiral Scheer on February 21, 1942 when they were transferred to Norway. The boat was then used again in the western area. During Operation Chariot , the British commando raid against Saint-Nazaire , which was Jaguar , the British MGB 14 board . However, the towed boat had to be abandoned after other British units showed up.
In June 1942, the Jaguar left the 5th T-Flotilla and was replaced by the new T 23 torpedo boat . After a period of lay in the shipyard, the torpedo boat was available to the Ship Artillery School (SAS) from August 16, 1942. It was rammed in the Kiel Fjord on November 18, 1942 by the Steegen fishing steamer . In addition to the destroyed radio room, there was one dead and two injured in this accident. The repair of the damage lasted from November 19, 1942 to February 22, 1943. At the beginning of March 1943, the Jaguar left for Kristiansand . From there the boat accompanied the Scharnhorst to the bow bay and on the way back the Nürnberg to Germany. This was followed by further mining operations under the leadership of the mining ships . In mid-May 1943, the Jaguar returned to the northern French coast. There she was again entrusted with various escort and security tasks until spring 1944. The boat also got into battles with light enemy naval forces several times. On August 30, 1943, a barrier breaker rammed the Jaguar , which had to be sent to the shipyard for repairs. The 5th T-Flotilla was moved from Cherbourg to Le Havre in May 1944. The Jaguar survived the British attacks on the unit while under way on May 24th , but the griffin running directly behind it sank after a bomb hit.
Whereabouts
After the second front in the west was opened on June 6, 1944 with Operation Neptune , the Jaguar, along with other naval forces, carried out offensive efforts against the invasion fleet almost every day. The Jaguar sank the Norwegian destroyer Svenner . On June 14, 1944, the Allied air forces bombed the German-owned port of Le Havre with Avro Lancaster bombers . The Jaguar received several heavy hits and sank around 6:00 a.m. 16 crew members lost their lives.
Commanders
| June 1, 1929 to September 25, 1931 | Lieutenant captain , later lieutenant general Hans-Armin Czech |
| October 1, 1932 to October 1933 | Lieutenant Captain Gottfried Pönitz |
| October 1933 to September 1935 | Oberleutnant zur See / Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Böhme |
| September 1935 to March 16, 1937 | Captain Karl Smidt |
| June 3, 1937 to April 1939 | Lieutenant Captain Klaus Scholtz |
| April to October 1939 | Captain Franz Kohlauf |
| October 1939 to April 1941 | Lieutenant Captain Werner Hartenstein |
| April 1941 to May 1942 | Lieutenant Captain Friedrich Karl Paul |
| May to November 1942 | Lieutenant Captain Hans Strecker |
| June to August 1942 | Lieutenant for the Sea Hanns Tietze (deputy) |
| August to September 1942 | Kapitänleutnant Konrad Loerke (deputy) |
| November 1942 to October 1943 | Lieutenant Walter Lüdde-Neurath |
| January to February 1943 | Oberleutnant zur See Horst Freiherr von Luttitz (deputy) |
| August to September 1943 | Oberleutnant zur See Horst Freiherr von Luttitz (deputy) |
| September to October 1943 | Kapitänleutnant / Korvettenkapitän Wirich von Gartzen (deputy) |
| November to December 1943 | Lieutenant for the Sea Otto Schäfer (deputy) |
| December 1943 to January 1944 | Oberleutnant zur See Heinz-Harald Pockrandt (deputy) |
| January to June 14, 1944 | First lieutenant to the sea Heinz-Jürgen Sonnenburg |
literature
- Gröner, Erich / Dieter Jung / Martin Maass: The German warships 1815-1945 . tape 2 : torpedo boats, destroyers, speedboats, minesweepers, mine clearance boats . Bernard & Graefe Verlag, Bonn 1999, ISBN 3-7637-4801-6 , pp. 80-83 .
- Hildebrand, Hans H. / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 5 : Ship biographies from Kaiser to Lütjens . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 224–227 (Approved licensed edition by Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
Web links
Footnotes
- ↑ a b c d e f Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 5, p. 225.
- ↑ The Rear Admiral a. After the war D. was among other things deputy chairman of the association of former active and inactive naval officers "Skagerrak-Gesellschaft, Lübeck"
- ↑ Hildebrand, Hans / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships . Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present . tape 6 : Biographies from Lützow to Prussia . Mundus Verlag, Ratingen, S. 160 (Approved licensed edition by Koehler's Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg, approx. 1990).
- ↑ a b c Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 5, p. 226.
- ↑ a b Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 5, p. 227.
- ↑ Gröner / Jung / Maass: The German warships. Volume 2, p. 83.
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r Hildebrand / Röhr / Steinmetz: The German warships. Volume 5, p. 224.
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