Z 35

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Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type destroyer
class Destroyer 1936B (Mob)
Shipyard Deschimag Weser , Bremen
Build number 1005
Keel laying June 6, 1941
Launch October 2, 1942
Commissioning September 22, 1943
Whereabouts Sunk on December 12, 1944
Ship dimensions and crew
length
127 m ( Lüa )
121.9 m ( Lpp )
width 12.0 m
Draft Max. 3.83 m
displacement 2519 ts standard
3542 ts max.
 
crew 332 men
Machine system
machine 6 × steam boiler

2 sets of Deschimag steam turbines

Machine
performance 		70,000 PS (51,485 kW)
Top
speed 		37.5 kn (69 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament
Sensors
  • 1 GHG (group listening device)
  • 1 Atlas echo sounder
  • 1 swiveling sonar through 160 °
  • 1 FuMO 21 (GEMA FMG 39 G)
  • 1 fire control radar for artillery
  • 2 radio monitoring devices (FuMB)
  • 1 fire control radar for the flak

Z 35 was a destroyer of the type B 1936 (Mob) of the German navy .

Building history

The order for the Z 35 was placed on February 17, 1941. Z 35 was the first destroyer of the 1936 B (Mob) type. He was at work Weser the Deschimag in Bremen built. The destroyer was another variant of the 1936 destroyer . The type 1936 B (Mob) was therefore not a new development, but largely corresponded to the predecessor types.

A major change in the 1936 B (Mob) type was the return from 15 cm to 12.7 cm rapid fire guns.

Mission history

The Z 35 was put into service on September 22, 1943. In February 1944, ready for war, the Z 35 drove to Reval , from where the destroyer laid mines in the Gulf of Finland with other destroyers and mine- layers from mid to late February .

Between July 30 and August 19, 1944, Z 35 and other warships of Combat Group II fired at Soviet positions on Ösel , on the coast of Courland and in Tukkum . On August 20, the destroyer touched the seabed and had to go to Gotenhafen to replace the damaged propeller.

From October 10 to 24, 1944, Z 35, as part of Kampfgruppe II, also known as Kampfgruppe Thiele, whose two largest ships at the time were the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Lützow , fired at Soviet land targets to defend the cities of Libau and Memel, among other things and the German position on the Sworbe peninsula .

On October 15, the Z 35 and Z 36 were ordered to secure the light cruiser Leipzig and the Prinz Eugen , as the heavy ramming of the Prinz Eugen into the Leipzig off Gotenhafen caused both ships to be temporarily wedged and immobile in the water.

On December 9, 1944, the Z 35 drove as the flotilla leader of the 6th Destroyer Flotilla with the destroyers Z 36 , Z 43 and the torpedo boats T 23 and T 28 from Gotenhafen to lay mines near Reval. On the night of December 12, 1944, the warships were supposed to lay an offensive mine barrier there. In very bad weather it was not possible to determine the exact position on the march, and Z 35 and Z 36 ran in thick fog onto a German mine barrier and sank northeast of Reval. Only 87 crew members were rescued, more than 540 men died. Soviet speedboats rescued some survivors from Z 35 . 67 men drove to Finland in life rafts and had to be handed over to the Soviet Union as prisoners of war. The remaining German combat ships ran back to Gotenhafen with their mines.

commander

Corvette Captain Niels Bätge

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Preston: Superdestroyers , p. 69

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 .
  • 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 special2, Conway maritime press, Greenwich (1978), pp. 62 ff., ISBN 0-85177-131-9 .
  • 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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