Z 15 Erich Steinbrinck

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Z 15 Erich Steinbrinck
Kriegsmarine Type 34a destroyer Z15 Erich Steinbrinck.jpg
Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire Soviet Union
Soviet Union 1923Soviet Union 
Ship type destroyer
class Destroyer 1934 A
Shipyard Blohm & Voss Hamburg
Build number 504
building-costs 14.1 million Reichsmarks
Keel laying May 30, 1935
Launch September 24, 1936
Commissioning June 8, 1938
Whereabouts Scrapped in 1960
Ship dimensions and crew
length
121 m ( Lüa )
116 m ( KWL )
width 11.3 m
Draft Max. 4.23 m
displacement 3165  t
 
crew 325 men
Machine system
machine Design Benson
Operating pressure: 110 atü
2 Wagner steam turbines
Machine
performance 		70,000 PS (51,485 kW)
Top
speed 		38.2 kn (71 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

1944 Barbara -Art. Armament:

  • 4 × 1 ship cannon 12.7 cm / L45 C / 36
  • 7 × 2 3.7cm-L / 69 Fla- MK C / 42
  • 1 × 2 cm Flak Quad 38
  • 3 × 2 cm twin M44 flak
Sensors

The destroyer Z 15 Erich Steinbrinck was one of twelve boats of the destroyer class 1934 A that were launched between 1936 and 1938 for the German navy . It was named after the commander of the torpedo boat V 29 , which was sunk on May 31, 1916 in the Battle of the Skagerrak . Kapitänleutnant Erich Steinbrinck (1881-1916) and some of his people were initially rescued by S 35 under Kapitänleutnant Friedrich Ihn . In a renewed attack against the British battle fleet, this boat was also sunk. Steinbrinck, him and the crews of their boats were killed.

In 1946 the destroyer came to the Soviet Union and served there as Pylkiy in the Baltic Red Banner Fleet until 1956.

history

When the war began, the boat belonged to the 3rd destroyer flotilla and operated in the Baltic Sea near Danzig . The destroyer was later relocated to the North Sea and participated in the laying of the Westwall mine barriers . Subsequently, Z 15 waged a trade war in the Skagerrak and Kattegat. Z 15 occasionally took part in the [[Seemine} mine-laying operations]] of the German destroyers off the British coast . In December there was a collision with the destroyer Z 7 Hermann Schoemann , which necessitated a longer layover time. The repairs were only finished in May 1940, which meant that Z 15 Erich Steinbrinck could not take part in the Weser Exercise , the invasion of Norway and Denmark .

In June the destroyer took part in the Juno operation, during which it had to return to Trondheim due to machine problems . In the same month the boat led the battleship Scharnhorst to Kiel and then went to the shipyard in Hamburg for overhaul. This was followed by a mining operation and another stay in the shipyard before the destroyer moved to western France in September 1940. Due to renewed engine problems, however, the boat could not be reported as fully operational until March 1941.

In April 1942, the Erich Steinbrinck, together with the sister ship Z 14 Friedrich Ihn, was assigned as a security destroyer for the Scharnhorst and relocated to Brest .

Then she was sent to Norway, where she took part in the Wunderland company . During her stay in Norway, the boat hit the bottom at Kirkenes , moved back to the shipyard in Germany after repeated machine problems and did not return to Norway until January 1943. Various security tasks and participation in the Sicily company followed . Then Z 15 returned to Germany together with the heavy cruiser Lützow . After a collision with a Norwegian freighter, the Z 15 had to return to the shipyard, from which the boat was released in January 1944.

After another mining company, the destroyer went to Blohm & Voss in May 1944 , where it was badly damaged by an air raid in November.

In April 1945 Z 15 moved to Cuxhaven , where the ship was decommissioned on May 7, 1945.

The End

There the boat was renamed British spoils of war and the R 92 . By drawing lots the destroyer fell to the Soviet Navy on January 2, 1946 . At the beginning of January 1946 he went to Libau , together with five other former German ships (the light cruiser Nürnberg , the target ship Hessen , its lead ship Blitz , the torpedo boat T 33 and the old torpedo boat and current torpedo catcher T 107 ) to Libau , where he was named Pylkiy ( Пылкий ) was put back into service. From April 30, 1949, the boat was converted into the PKZ-2 residential ship . In 1958 it was finally removed from the list of active warships and scrapped.

Commanders

Surname Period
Frigate Captain Rolf Johannesson June 8, 1938 to January 27, 1942
Corvette captain Heinrich Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven January 20 to December 29, 1942
Corvette Captain / Frigate Captain Otto Teichmann December 29, 1942 to November 3, 1944
Captain Dietrich von Rödgisch-Ballas i. V. November 4th to 14th, 1944
Frigate Captain Werner Röver November 15, 1944 to May 9, 1945
Frigate Captain Carl-Heinrich Lampe December 1945 to January 2, 1946

Remarks

  1. ^ The Kriegsmarine referred to all their watercraft up to and including destroyer size as boats; see also: boat / ship
  2. ↑ The remaining German crews of the six ships were brought back to Germany by the accompanying submarine escort ship Otto Wünsche, which was later also delivered to the Soviet Navy .

literature

  • Bekker, Cajus: Damn Sea. A war diary of the German Navy . Berlin 1998.
  • Fock, Harald: Z - before . 2 volumes. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Hamburg 2001.
  • Hildebrand, Hans / Albert Röhr / Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships. A mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present day. Biographies, Volume 3. Mundus Verlag 1990.
  • Jackson, Robert: German warships in World War II . Bindlach 1999. Dt. Translation by Michael Holtmann.
  • Whitley, MJ: Destroyer in World War II . Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1997.

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