Z 30

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Z 30
1936 A model
1936 A model
Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type destroyer
class Destroyer 1936A
Shipyard Deschimag Weser , Bremen
Keel laying April 15, 1940
Launch December 8, 1940
Commissioning November 15, 1941
Whereabouts Sunk in 1948 as a test ship
Ship dimensions and crew
length
127 m ( Lüa )
120.0 m ( KWL )
width 12.0 m
Draft Max. 4.43 m
displacement 2543 ts standard
3543 ts max.
 
crew 332 men
Machine system
machine 6 × water tube boiler
2 × geared turbine
Machine
performance 		70,000 PS (51,485 kW)
Top
speed 		36 kn (67 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament

4 × 1 ship cannon 15 cm / L46 model 36
2 × 2 flak 3.7 cm / L80 model 30
5 × 1 flak 2.0 cm / L65 model 38
2 × 4 torpedo tube Ø 53.3 cm (16 torpedoes)
60 sea ​​mines

Z 30 was a 1936A destroyer ofthe German Navy .

Building history

The destroyer Z 30 was the eighth boat of the 1936A type ordered in May 1938. All eight boats of the class originated in the work of the Weser the Deschimag . The keel of Z 30 was laid on April 15, 1940 and the launch took place on December 8, 1940.

The two front 15 cm guns were to be set up in a twin turret. The production of these towers was delayed considerably. So a single gun was set up in its place.

Use in the North Sea

Z 30 put into service on November 15, 1941. During the training trips, the destroyer collided with the submarine U 216 on January 14, 1942 and damaged its stern. The first military use of the Z 30 was on March 18, 1942 with the escort of the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper from Brunsbüttel to Trondheim with the other escort vehicles Z 6 , Z 24 and three torpedo boats. From Trondheim, Z 30 escorted the heavy cruiser Admiral Scheer to Narvik .

At the end of September 1942, the destroyer was involved in the laying of minefields in northern Russian waters. From November 5 to 9 took Z 30 at the companies hope in part, the exit of a German battle group to fight Soviet shipping in nordrussischem sea area.

At the end of December 1942, the destroyer took part in Operation Rainbow , the attack on the Northern Sea Convoy 51B going to Russia .

At the end of January 1943, the Z 30 with the Z 4 and Z 29 drove escort security for the light cruiser Cologne and the heavy cruiser Admiral Hipper from Norway to Kiel . After a shipyard overhaul in Germany, the destroyer returned to Norway.

In the second half of June 1943 led Z 30 together with Z 27 from Minenlegungen before the warship group joined the the company Sicily in early September 1943 Spitsbergen attack. The destroyer was then ordered to southern Norway and had been working there since May 8, 1944, laying mines and securing escorts.

From August 31, 1944, the destroyer was used for a shipyard overhaul in Swinoujscie and then in the western Baltic Sea and in the Skagerrak .

On October 20, 1944, the Z 30 hit a mine in the Oslofjord and had to be towed to Oslo for repairs . The mine hit nine dead, five missing and twelve injured on board. When the German surrendered on May 9, 1945, the repair work on the ship was not yet finished. The destroyer was decommissioned on May 14, 1945.

The End

In February 1946 the Z 30 was towed to Rosyth , Scotland, as spoils of war . In 1948 the destroyer was used as a test ship for underwater explosions. After the tests, Z 30 was sunk.

Commanders

  • November 15, 1941 to March 1943, frigate captain Heinrich Kaiser
  • March 1943 to May 14, 1945 frigate captain Karl Heinz Lampe

literature

  • Ulrich Elfrath: German destroyers 1934–1945 - development deployment, whereabouts Podzun-Pallas-Verlag, Friedberg / H. without year.
  • 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 978-3763762156 .
  • Hans H. Hildebrand, Albert Röhr, Hans-Otto Steinmetz: The German warships: Biographies - a mirror of naval history from 1815 to the present. Koehlers Verlagsgesellschaft, Herford.
  • Wolfgang Harnack: Destroyers under the German flag: 1934 to 1945. Koehler, Hamburg 1997 (3rd, revised edition), ISBN 3-7822-0698-3 .
  • Gerhard Koop / Klaus-Peter Schmolke: The German Destroyers 1935-1945 , Bernard & Graefe, Bonn 1995.
  • 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 978-3881896375 .
  • Anthony Preston: Superdestroyers - the German Narvik type 1936. Warship special 2, Conway maritime press, Greenwich (1978), ISBN 0-85177-131-9 .
  • Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945. Manfred Pawlak Verlags GmbH (Herrsching 1968), ISBN 3-88199-0097 .
  • Mike J. Whitley: Destroyers in World War II: Technique - Class - Types. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3613014268 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Preston: Superdestroyers , p. 72.
  2. ^ Preston, p. 67