Z 36

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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 1006
Keel laying September 15, 1941
Launch May 15, 1943
Commissioning February 19, 1944
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 36 was a destroyer of the type B 1936 (Mob) of the German navy .

Building history

The order for the Z 36 was placed on February 17, 1941. Z 36 was the second 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 36 was put into service on February 19, 1944. In mid-1944 the destroyer was ready for war.

On June 28, 1944, Z 36 belonged to the warship association of the destroyers Z 25 , Z 28 , Z 35 and the heavy cruiser Lützow , which had sailed for the Tanne West company , the occupation of the Aaland Islands , in the event of Finland leaving the war , but there Finland remained on the side of Germany in the war, the enterprise was canceled.

On July 30 and August 1, 1944, the Z 36, together with the destroyers Z 25 , Z 28 and Z 35 , fired at Soviet positions on the island of Ösel , on the coast of Courland and in Tukkum .

On August 5, the destroyers escorted the heavy cruiser Prinz Eugen to bombard Soviet targets on Ösel and on August 19, 20 and 21 for bombardments on the coast of Latvia , when Combat Group II under Vice Admiral Thiele with the Prinz Eugen , the destroyers Z 25 , Z 28 , Z 35 , Z 36 and the T-boats T 23 and T 28 intervened in the land battles against the Soviet points on the Gulf of Riga near Tukkum . With the support of the naval artillery, a land connection to the severed Army Group North was restored.

On September 14, T 23 , T 28 and the destroyers Z 25 , Z 28 and Z 36 ran again into the Gulf of Finland and reached Reval on September 15. On September 16, the Z 28 and Z 36 escorted the passenger ship Monte Rosa loaded with refugees from Baltischport to Gotenhafen .

In September 1944, the destroyers continued to secure escorts with Wehrmacht troops from Finland and Reval to the west.

From October 10-15, 1944, Z 36, as part of Kampfgruppe II, also known as Kampfgruppe Thiele, fired at Soviet land targets with the heavy cruisers Prinz Eugen and Lützow to defend the cities of Libau and Memel and the German positions 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 immobilized in the water.

Between November 20 and 24, the destroyers were on their way with the heavy cruisers Admiral Scheer and Prinz Eugen to bombard Soviet positions during the evacuation of the Sworbe peninsula .

On December 9, 1944, the Z 36 was the flotilla leader of the 6th Destroyer Flotilla with the destroyers Z 35 , 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. The remaining German combat ships ran back to Gotenhafen with their mines.

commander

Corvette captain Lothar Freiherr von Hausen, former commandant of the destroyer Z 6 Theodor Riedel

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Preston: Superdestroyers , p. 69
  2. ^ Rohwer: Sea War , August 20-21, 1944 Baltic Sea

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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