No. 33

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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 December 22, 1940
Launch September 15, 1941
Commissioning February 6, 1943
Decommissioning April / May 1945
Whereabouts Handover to the Soviet Union
From 1946
flag Soviet UnionSoviet Union (naval war flag) Soviet Union
other ship names

Provornyy (Проворный)

Commissioning 1946
Decommissioning April 22, 1955
Whereabouts Destroyed by fire in 1960,
scrapped in 1962
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 33 was built in the Second World War as the 1936A (Mob) of the German Navy .

construction

The keel of the ship was laid on December 22, 1940 at Deschimag -Werft AG Weser in Bremen and launched on September 15, 1941.

Use in the North Sea

The Z 33 was put into service on February 6, 1943. After the run-in period, the destroyer drove together with the Z 27 to Combat Group I in northern Norway .

The first combat mission took place at the company Sicily against Spitzbergen at the beginning of September 1943, in which Z 33 received 33 hits from the coastal artillery, which hit the bridge and the hull. The shelling by the coastal artillery on the destroyer cost 3 dead and 25 wounded.

Z 33 was part of Operation Ostfront at the end of December 1943, the unsuccessful attack by a German warship group on the northern sea convoy JW 55B , but had no enemy contact.

During an air raid on the battleship Tirpitz on July 17, 1944, the Z 33 was slightly damaged by gunfire. The repair work took five days.

From October to December 1944, the destroyer carried out various escort and security services for the evacuation of the polar front in northernmost Finland and Norway and, together with Z 31, laid mines in Porsangerfjord and Reppfjord . Minor damage caused by these companies was repaired in Narvik .

On February 5, 1945, the Z 33 was the last German destroyer in northern Norway when it left for Germany, but on February 7, it hit the ground in the Brufjord , which led to serious damage to the propulsion system. The destroyer had to be towed to Trondheim for repairs , with the ship receiving further damage from bombs and gunfire from continuous air raids. Z 33 was introduced into Trondheim on February 11th .

Baltic Sea and North Sea

On March 26, 1945, Z 33 left Trondheim on its own and reached Swinoujscie on April 2 . Due to a lack of fuel, several warships were laid up in Swinoujscie, including the Z 33 . The ship's anti-aircraft armament was dismantled and used elsewhere when it was decided to move the ship westward in front of the advancing Red Army . For this purpose, flak weapons were removed from the heavily damaged heavy cruiser Lützow and installed on the Z 33 . Since only parts of the crew now deployed on land could be called together for the departure of the destroyer, other naval personnel who were just available were called in to replenish the crew. On April 27, 1945, the destroyer sailed west and reached Cuxhaven via Kiel and Brunsbüttel . There Z 33 was decommissioned and finally confiscated by the British as spoils of war.

In June 1945 the destroyer was transferred to Wilhelmshaven with a mixed German-British crew and subjected to a shipyard overhaul.

Soviet spoils of war

In the partition agreement of the Tripartite Naval Commission of the Allied Powers on ships of the Kriegsmarine, Z 33 was assigned to the Soviet Union in December 1945. In a convoy of German ships destined for the Soviet Union, the destroyer left Wilhelmshafen for Libau on January 2, 1946 .

Under the new name Provornyy , the destroyer was assigned to the Baltic Fleet of the Soviet Union. Since November 30, 1954, the destroyer served as a training ship. On April 22, 1955, it became a barge . In 1960 the ship burned out and sank at its mooring. In 1962 the former Z 33 was lifted and scrapped.

Commanders in the German time of the destroyer

February 6, 1943 to June 1944, sea ​​captain Erich Holtorf

June 1944 to February 1945 Frigate Captain Rudolf Quantity

February 1945 to May 1945 Kapitänleutnant Heinrich Peter-Prickham (first officer of Z 33 ) in deputy of the commandant

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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