Z 10 Hans Lody

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Z 10 Hans Lody
The Hans Lody 1939
The Hans Lody 1939
Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire United Kingdom
United KingdomUnited Kingdom (Naval War Flag) 
Ship type destroyer
class Destroyer 1934 A
Shipyard Germania shipyard , Kiel
Build number 536
Launch May 14, 1938
Commissioning September 17, 1938
Whereabouts Scrapped in 1949
Ship dimensions and crew
length
119.0 m ( Lüa )
116.3 m ( KWL )
width 11.3 m
Draft Max. 4.23 m
displacement 3180  t
 
crew 323 men
Machine system
machine 6 Benson kettles

2 sets of Blohm & Voss steam turbines

Machine
performance 		70,000 PS (51,485 kW)
Top
speed 		36 kn (67 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

Z 10 Hans Lody was a class 1934 A destroyer of the German Navy . The destroyer survived the Second World War and was drawn to Great Britain. After various tests, the Hans Lody was canceled in Sunderland in 1949 .

The destroyer was named after First Lieutenant z. S. the reserve Carl Hans Lody , who was executed on November 6, 1914 as the first German spy in London.

Building history

The Hans Lody was a destroyer of the 1934 A type ordered in January 1935 and had a length of 119 m over all and 116 m in the waterline . She was up to 11.3 m wide and had a maximum draft of 4.23 m. The standard displacement was 2260 t and 3190 t with full equipment. The Blohm & Voss turbines achieved a maximum output of 70,000 hp , which gave the boat a top speed of 36 knots . The steam generation for the turbines took place in six high-pressure boilers from the Benson system . Like the other boats in the class, she could hold up to 752 tons of diesel fuel , which should give her a range of 4400 nautical miles at 19  knots (kn). The boats of the class turned out to be top-heavy in service, so that 30% of the fuel had to remain unused to serve as necessary ballast . This reduced the usable range to 1825 nm at 19 kn.

The Hans Lody was armed with five 12.7 cm type C / 34 guns in stand-alone configuration with protective shields, two of which were arranged one above the other on the forecastle and on the stern. The fifth gun was on the aft deckhouse. The anti- aircraft armament consisted of four 3.7 cm Flak C / 30 in twin mounts next to the rear funnel and six 2 cm Flak C / 30 in single mounts. The torpedo armament consisted of eight 53.3 cm torpedo tubes in two pivoting sets of four. Four depth charges stood by the aft deckhouse. There were also six mounts for depth charges in the stern area. This allowed the destroyer to throw volleys of up to 16 depth charges. The stock of depth charges could be up to 64. On the quarterdeck the boat had rails for the transport of up to 60 mines .

The keel of the boat was laid on August 4, 1935 at the Germania shipyard in Kiel with hull number 536 as the second of the class of boats to be delivered by this shipyard. Christening and launching took place on May 14, 1937, and on September 17, 1938 the boat was put into service as the ninth of the class. The first in command was Korvettenkapitän Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer , Hitler's previous naval adjutant .

Mission history

The Hans Lody was assigned to the newly established 4th Destroyer Flotilla in April 1939 . On May 30, 1939, the boat was one of the fleet units that received the returning Condor Legion in the North Sea. In July, the boat was involved in maneuvers of the Kriegsmarine in the North and Baltic Seas with other destroyers.

War effort

Z 10 before the sinking Orama in June 1940

At the beginning of September 1939, the Hans Lody was one of the units deployed against Poland in the Baltic Sea, but moved to the North Sea on September 4th. When taking over mines to move the "Westwall" mine barriers, an explosion occurred that left two dead and six wounded. At the end of September and twice in October 1939, the boat was involved in unsuccessful attacks against trade in the Skagerrak and Kattegat with the Friedrich Ihn and the Erich Steinbrinck and torpedo boats . On 18./19. November the boat was used for a mining company against the Humber estuary with the 4th destroyer flotilla under frigate captain Erich Bey with the Erich Steinbrinck and the Friedrich Eckoldt ; the lock they placed was the undoing of the Polish motor ship Piłsudski (14,294 GRT). Together with the Erich Giese the boat led on 6/7. December carried out another mining operation against Cromer , in which the Erich Giese torpedoed the British destroyer HMS Jersey .

In February 1940, the Hans Lody began a scheduled shipyard layover until May 22, 1940, so that she did not take part in the occupation of Norway . In the course of the reorganization of the destroyer associations after the heavy losses in Narvik , the Hans Lody was assigned to the 6th destroyer flotilla. Together with the Karl Galster , the Erich Steinbrinck and the Hermann Schoemann , she accompanied the battleships Gneisenau and Scharnhorst and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper on their advance ( Operation Juno ) from June 4 to 9, 1940. She was involved in the destruction of the empty one Troop transporter Orama involved and rescued 98 castaways. On June 8, the Admiral Hipper was released to Trondheim with the four destroyers . The Hans Lody brought up a British trawler on the march to the Norwegian port.

The Scharnhorst , damaged by a British air raid in Trondheim on June 13th, was taken by a fuse under the FdZ , Captain Erich Bey, on the Hans Lody with the destroyers Hermann Schoemann and Erich Steinbrinck and the torpedo boats Greif and Kondor from 20 to 23 March June 1940 transferred to Kiel. Hans Lody , who continued to Wilhelmshaven , then moved back to Trondheim with Paul Jacobi on June 30th . In the meantime, the Gneisenau had received a torpedo hit by the British submarine Clyde shortly after it had set sail on June 20, during a planned advance to the Iceland-Faroe Line , and had to return to Germany for repairs. The repatriation took place under the direction of the BdA , Rear Admiral Schmundt , on the light cruiser Nürnberg with the destroyers Hans Lody (lead boat of the FdZ), Paul Jacobi , Friedrich Ihn and Karl Galster as well as the torpedo boats Kondor , Iltis , Jaguar , Luchs and T 5 from 25 . to July 28th. The Luchs was hit and sunk by torpedoes destined for the Gneisenau by the British submarine Swordfish . The Hans Lody collided with the Gneisenau when changing course .

After the return of the Gneisenau , the Hans Lody moved to Wilhelmshaven and then as the command boat of the FdZ on September 9, 1940 with the Karl Galster , Theodor Riedel , Friedrich Eckoldt and Friedrich Ihn through the English Channel to Le Havre and Cherbourg . She took part in various activities, so on 28/29. September at a mining company run by the FdZ against Falmouth Bay . It followed on 17./18. October an advance against the west exit of the Bristol Canal and on 24/25. and 28./29. November raids against Plymouth. The last advance resulted in a battle with the 5th Destroyer Flotilla, and HMS Javelin was badly damaged by torpedo hits. The British destroyer lost the bow and stern and only the middle section could be brought in; the javelin was not ready for use again for a year. The Hans Lody was able to set fire to a steamer with the Richard Beitzen and only suffered splinter damage. On December 5th, the boat started the march back with the Karl Galster in order to be overtaken in Wesermünde.

In April 1941, the Hans Lody left the shipyard with now nine 2-cm Flak C38 instead of the previous six guns of the previous model. With the chief of the 6th Destroyer Flotilla on board, she secured the march of the Bismarck and the Prinz Eugen between the Great Belt and northwest of Trondheim from May 19-22 , where she and the other two accompanying destroyers ( Friedrich Eckoldt and Z 23 ) was released. She went back to Wesermünde via Kiel.

In June, the destroyer was part of the escort of the heavy cruiser Lützow , which was supposed to break out from Kiel via Norway into the Atlantic. The ships were surprisingly attacked on June 13 by a Bristol Beaufort off Egersund and the Lützow received a torpedo hit, which caused her machinery to temporarily fail. The association then returned to Kiel.

At the beginning of July, Hans Lody moved with Richard Beitzen to Bergen , where they were expected by Karl Galster , Hermann Schoemann and Friedrich Eckoldt . The five destroyers then continued their march north and reached their planned new base at Kirkenes on July 10th. On the 12th, they set sail for the first time to search for Allied shipping, but were not able to discover a small Soviet convoy until the following night , from which two ships were sunk with almost all of their ammunition consumed. On the march back, the destroyers were attacked from the air. Another advance on July 22nd only resulted in the sinking of a Soviet ship. Again the boats had to repel air attacks. When the British aircraft carriers Victorious and Furious attacked Petsamo and Kirkenes on July 29, the German destroyers were too far to the east to attack the carriers. The destroyers made another attack on Kola Bay and sank a guard ship there.

Due to leaking boiler tubes, Hans Lody relocated to Germany at the end of September 1941 to be overhauled at the NDL shipyard in Wesermünde. The boat was not ready for use again until April 1942. The anti-aircraft armament had been reinforced by a 2 cm quadruple gun ; the number of 2 cm single cannons had been reduced to seven.

From May 15, 1942, Hans Lody was one of the security forces under the FdZ on Z 29 when the heavy cruiser Lützow was relocated to Norway (company "Walzertraum"). The relocation took place in stages, and the Hans Lody relocated with Z 29 , Z 27 and Richard Beitzen on 17/18. May an extension of the "Westwall" mine barriers from Kristiansand . On May 20, the association then reached Trondheim, where the Hans Lody was assigned to "Kampfgruppe I", while other units moved further north to "Kampfgruppe II".

On 2/3 July ran the Hans Lody with the "Kampfgruppe I", consisting of the battleship Tirpitz , the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper , the destroyers Friedrich Ihn , Karl Galster and Theodor Riedel and the torpedo boats T 7 and T 15 , north to the Altafjord for the planned Use ( company "Rösselsprung" ) against the Allied convoy traffic from Iceland to the Soviet Union. On July 3, the destroyers Hans Lody , Karl Galster and Theodor Riedel ran onto an unknown underwater rock and failed prematurely. The Lützow was also badly damaged when it hit the ground. The use of surface vehicles against convoy PQ 17 was then given up. The destroyed destroyers were brought down, temporarily sealed and transferred to Trondheim. The double bottom of the Hans Lody was torn open, the port shaft was stuck and both screws were damaged. On July 27th the Hans Lody and the Theodor Riedel left Trondheim in tow to Kiel. The originally planned decommissioning of Hans Lody was not carried out and it was repaired at the German works . During her stay in the shipyard she received (like all of the remaining boats from the Blohm & Voss and Germania shipyards that were originally powered by Blohm & Voss turbines) new turbines made by the Germania shipyard with a somewhat lower output of 67,000 hp.

On February 15, 1943, the new test drives of the Hans Lody began , which had to be interrupted again after a boiler room fire. On April 22nd, she moved to Northern Norway. From September 6 to 9, 1943, she was involved in the Sicily against Spitzbergen operation with the Tirpitz , the Scharnhorst and eight other destroyers. On November 21, she collided with the Erich Steinbrinck in the Altafjord , and both suffered only minor damage. The boat then moved to southern Norway with the chief of the 6th destroyer flotilla, Captain Kothe, for inspection trips, mining operations and escort duties. On December 3, the German minefields were expanded with the mine ships Ostmark , Brummer , Alsace and the destroyers Z 31 and Theodor Riedel .

After a last mine-laying mission in April 1944, the Hans Lody was withdrawn from Norway and went to the Germania shipyard. The docking time lasted until February 18, 1945, although the boat was not hit despite the frequent air raids on Kiel. The boat received a new sickle bow and a reinforced anti-aircraft armament (Barbara armament). The heavy weapons were reduced to four guns (delivery of No. 3). Instead there were seven 37 mm Flak Twins 43 , one 20 mm Flak Quad and three 20 mm Flak Twins 38. After training after the long layover, the boat came to Copenhagen on April 5 and was , conditionally operational, deployed for escort services in the Skagerrak.

End of Hans Lody

In the last days of the war, the Hans Lody was also used to evacuate German civilians and soldiers from East Prussia ( Hannibal Company ). After a first evacuation mission on May 3, 1945, she took another trip from Copenhagen on May 5 to bring Wehrmacht members and refugees from the Hela peninsula to the west. On May 7th she was back in Copenhagen. On May 9, she moved to Kiel with Theodor Riedel . At the end of May she ran with most of her German crew under British command to Wilhelmshaven, where the boat, like other destroyers, was overtaken. On December 18, 1945, the crew was taken prisoner of war.

The Hans Lody was drawn by lots to Great Britain and ran on January 6, 1946 with a mixed crew to Portsmouth, where German specialists were still interning British navy personnel until October 1946. The destroyer served under the British flag and with the registration R 38 for a few more attempts, was then a barge for a while and was scrapped in Sunderland from 1949.

Commanders

Surname Period
Corvette Captain Karl-Jesko von Puttkamer September 2, 1938 to August 22, 1939
Corvette Captain Hubert Freiherr von Wangenheim August 23, 1939 to October 31, 1940
Corvette Captain Werner Pfeiffer November 1, 1940 to August 10, 1942
Corvette Captain Karl-Adolf Zenker August 11, 1942 to March 10, 1943
Lieutenant Carlheinz chief March / April 1943 (mWdGb)
Sea captain Hans Marks April to November 15, 1943
Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Kurt Haun November 15, 1943 to May 1945
Lieutenant Richard Bulla i. V. July to November 1944

literature

  • Erich Gröner , Dieter Jung [arr.]: The ships of the German Navy and Air Force 1939–1945 and their whereabouts. Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 2000 (9th, revised and expanded edition), ISBN 978-3-7637-6215-6 .
  • Hans H. Hildebrand / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Koehler's publishing company, Herford,
  • Wolfgang Harnack: Destroyers under the German flag: 1934 to 1945. Koehler, Hamburg 1997 (3rd, revised edition), ISBN 3-7822-0698-3 .
  • Volkmar Kühn: Torpedo boats and destroyers in action 1939–1945. The fight and destruction of a weapon. Flechsig, Würzburg 2006 (6th, ext. A. special edition), ISBN 978-3-88189-637-5 .
  • Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945. Manfred Pawlak VerlagsGmbH (Herrsching 1968), ISBN 3-88199-009-7
  • Mike J. Whitley: Destroyers in World War II: Technique - Class - Types. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3-613-01426-8 .

Web links

Commons : Destroyer 1934  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Hildebrand: The German warships. Vol. 3, p. 49.
  2. ^ Whitley 1983, p. 26.
  3. ^ Whitley 1983, p. 23.
  4. ^ Whitley 1983, p. 299.
  5. ^ After Wolfgang Zenker and before the destroyers Bernd von Arnim , Erich Giese and Erich Koellner .
  6. ^ Rohwer, p. 26.
  7. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n Hildebrand: The German warships. Vol. 3, p. 50.
  8. ↑ Hildebrand: The German warships. Vol. 2, p. 146.
  9. ^ Rohwer, p. 76.
  10. ^ Whitley, p. 123.
  11. ^ Rohwer, p. 144.
  12. ^ Rohwer, p. 148.
  13. ^ Rohwer, p. 150.
  14. ^ Rohwer, p. 154.
  15. ^ Rohwer, p. 258.
  16. ^ Rohwer, p. 381.
  17. ^ Rohwer, p. 406.
  18. ^ Rohwer, p. 551.
  19. ↑ a b Hildebrand, Vol. 3, p. 51.