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Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type destroyer
class Destroyer 1936A (Mob)
Shipyard AG Weser ( Deschimag ), Bremen
Keel laying November 1, 1940
Launch August 15, 1941
Commissioning September 15, 1942
Whereabouts Deliberately stranded June 8, 1944
Ship dimensions and crew
length
127 m ( Lüa )
120 m ( KWL )
Template: Infobox ship / maintenance / LppGroesserKWL
121.9 m ( Lpp )
width 12 m
Draft Max. 4.62 m
displacement 3597  t
 
crew 319 men
Machine system
machine 6 Wagner-Deschimag steam boiler

2 sets of Wagner-Deschimag steam turbines

Machine
performance 		70,000 PS (51,485 kW)
Top
speed 		35.9 kn (66 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament
Sensors
  • 2 wireless measuring devices Fu Mo 25
  • 1 radio measuring device Fu Mo 61 or 63
  • 1 radio monitoring device Fu MB 24

The destroyer Z 32 was built in the Second World War as the 1936A (Mob) of the German Navy .

construction

The keel of the ship was laid on November 1, 1940 at the Deschimag -Werft AG Weser in Bremen and the launch took place on August 15, 1941.

Mission history

After commissioning on September 15, 1942, the destroyer reached war readiness on March 3, 1943 and drove with the 6th Destroyer Flotilla from Kiel to France for escort security tasks on the French coast for merchant ships and incoming and outgoing submarines.

On August 2, 1943, Z 32 and Z 23 took in the Italian blockade breaker Pietro Orsedo , who was arriving from Japan, and escorted him to France.

On December 28, 1943, Z 32 was involved in the battle in the Atlantic between German torpedo boats and destroyers and the British light cruisers Glasgow and Enterprise . Z 32 shot down six torpedoes, but scored no hit on the English ships.

During maneuvering exercises of the 8th destroyer flotilla off Bordeaux on January 30, 1944 , Z 32 collided with Z 37 . A fire broke out on board as a result of the collision. After the repairs that followed, the destroyer was operational again on May 2, 1944, but after a groundbreaking in the Gironde on May 5, the ship had to be repaired for another month.

On June 6, 1944, the Z 32 with the Z 24 , ZH 1 and T 24 set off for Brest . It was Z 32 hit in an air raid by two missiles, but not particularly damaged.

On June 8, the destroyer was on the way to Cherbourg to load mines there and move them off Brest. This company was known to the Allies through Ultra , the eavesdropping and deciphering of the German military radio traffic, and they tried to intercept the German warship association for the mine-laying off Brest with a strong destroyer association. The German unit with T 24 , Z 24 , ZH 1 and Z 32 came into artillery combat with seven Allied destroyers in the English Channel . During the battle, the Z 32 received such severe hits that the ship was driven onto a rock in front of the Île de Batz to rescue the crew and the crew left the destroyer in boats and rafts under enemy fire. Around 40 crew members were killed. The survivors were later picked up by a German outpost boat.

Z 32 was also destroyed by the crew after it hit the rock.

commander

Corvette Captain Ritter and Noble Georg von Berger

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 978-3763762156 .
  • 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 .
  • Jürgen Rohwer , Gerhard Hümmelchen : Chronicle of the naval war 1939-1945 , Manfred Pawlak VerlagsGmbH (Herrsching 1968), ISBN 3-88199-0097 .
  • Mike J. Whitley: Destroyers in World War II: Technique - Class - Types. Motorbuchverlag, Stuttgart 1991, ISBN 978-3613014268 .

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