Destroyer 1 (D 170)
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The destroyer 1 (ID: D-170) was a destroyer of Fletcher class and was the first ship of the class 119 1958 to 1972 in the service of the German navy . In common parlance, the destroyer 1 was usually called Z 1 .
The ship was built for the United States Navy and used as the USS Anthony from 1943 to 1946.
The destroyer was laid down on August 17, 1942 at the Bath Iron Works in Bath . The launch took place on December 20, 1942. The ship was christened Anthony by the granddaughters of the namesake Alice Anthony and Frances Anthony . It was the second ship in the US Navy to bear this name .
The Anthony entered service on February 26, 1943 under the command of Lieutenant Commander Blinn Van Mater. After the run-in and training period, the transfer to Pearl Harbor for the Pacific Fleet took place in May 1943 . The combat training, which lasted several months, took place there. From October 1943 the destroyer was mainly used in escort and convoy service. In 1945 he took part in the fighting for Iwo Jima and Okinawa and was attacked by Kamikaze planes, which did no significant damage, but hit the sister ship USS Braine . The Anthony received seven Battle Stars for their use in World War II . At the end of 1945 the ship was moved to Charleston , where it was decommissioned on April 17, 1946, taken over in the reserve and later mothballed in the Atlantic Reserve Fleet .
Time with the German Navy
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On April 29, 1957, the shipyard in Charleston began to subject the destroyer to a major overhaul and modernization so that it could be loaned to the Federal Republic of Germany as part of the American Military Assistance Program for the construction of their navy.
On January 17, 1958, the Anthony was put into service in the naval shipyard for the German Navy. The ship was given the identifier Z 1 and was assigned to class 119. In 1958 the identifier was changed to D 170. The class 119 destroyers were given no names when they were commissioned. They were only numbered from 1 to 6. It was not until 1960 that the name Destroyer 1 was assigned.
During its service with the German Navy, the destroyer was involved in numerous national and NATO maneuvers. On July 12, 1965, Destroyer 1 hit the headlines when the crew under frigate captain Jürgen Göttschke rescued or recovered three survivors and six dead of a crashed US aircraft of the type EC-121 Super Constellation under difficult conditions during an exercise with the US Navy could. Destroyer 1 was also able to provide assistance when the Danish ferry Skagerrak sank on September 7, 1966 .
In the period from March 31, 1967 to August 19, 1968, the destroyer was decommissioned to be repaired and modernized in Bremerhaven and in the Wilhelmshaven naval arsenal .
Destroyer 1 was finally decommissioned on March 17, 1972 .
Whereabouts of the ship
After decommissioning, the ship was formally returned to the United States. However, it remained as a trailer in the naval arsenal in Kiel . After the deletion from the list of warships of the US Navy on April 15, 1972, it was given to the German Navy as a reserve material . In the following years it was largely cannibalized.
After a tender by VEBEG for exploitation had been unsuccessful, it was decided to use the destroyer as a target ship for naval aviators . On June 9, 1978, the destroyer was towed into the Mediterranean and anchored off Crete . There it served as a target ship for fire with cormorant missiles. On May 16, 1979, the destroyer 1 was sunk by the German submarine U 29 , a class 206 boat , by torpedo fire.
Commanders
| February 26, 1943 to 1943 | Lieutenant Commander Blinn van Mater |
| 1943 to December 31, 1944 | Commander Clyde James van Arsdall |
| January 1, 1945 to April 17, 1946 | Commander Jackson Hunter Raymer |
| January 17, 1958 to March 31, 1959 | Frigate Captain Hans Trummer |
| April 1, 1959 to October 2, 1960 | Sea captain Carl-Heinz Birnbacher |
| October 3, 1960 to July 30, 1961 | Frigate Captain Carlheinz Chief |
| July 31, 1961 to September 30, 1963 | Frigate Captain Werner Winter |
| October 1, 1963 to March 31, 1964 | Frigate Captain Henrich Grote |
| April 1, 1964 to March 31, 1965 | Frigate Captain Klaus Hänert |
| April 1, 1965 to September 30, 1966 | Frigate Captain Jürgen Goetschke |
| October 1, 1966 to March 31, 1967 | Frigate Captain Karl-Heinz Proettel |
| April 1, 1967 to July 31, 1968 | Post vacant |
| April 1, 1968 to September 30, 1970 | Frigate Captain Hans-Hubert Gaude |
| October 1, 1970 to September 30, 1971 | Frigate Captain Joachim Kolvenbach |
| October 1, 1971 to March 17, 1972 | Lieutenant Rolf Döring |
Web links
literature
- Egbert Thomer: Z 1 - The Destroyer Book , Koblenz / Bonn 1973
- Wolfgang Harnack: The destroyer flotilla of the German Navy from 1958 to today , Hamburg 2001, ISBN 3-7822-0816-1
- Siegfried Breyer / Gerhard Koop: The ships, vehicles and aircraft of the German Navy 1956 to today , Munich 1996, ISBN 3-7637-5950-6 .
Individual evidence
- ^ Atlantic Reserve Fleet
- ^ Military Assistance Program
- ↑ The ships, vehicles and aircraft of the German Navy from 1956 to the present day
- ↑ a b Z 1 - The Destroyer Book