Z 39

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Z 39
August 1945 off Boston
August 1945 off Boston
Ship data
flag German EmpireGerman Empire (Reichskriegsflagge) German Empire
Ship type destroyer
class Type 1936A (mob)
Shipyard Germania shipyard , Kiel
Build number 629
Keel laying August 15, 1940
Launch December 2, 1941
Commissioning August 21, 1943
Whereabouts 1964 scrapped
Ship dimensions and crew
length
127 m ( Lüa )
121.9 m ( Lpp )
width 12.0 m
Draft Max. 3.92 m
displacement 2,657 ts standard
3,691 ts max.
 
crew 332 men
Machine system
machine 6 × steam boiler
2 × steam turbine
Machine
performanceTemplate: Infobox ship / maintenance / service format
70,000 PS (51,485 kW)
Top
speed
36 kn (67 km / h)
propeller 2
Armament
Sensors

Z 39 was a 1936A (mob) destroyer ofthe German Navy .

Navy

The destroyer was in on 15 August 1940 Germaniawerft to put Kiel , was launched on December 2, 1941 from the pile and could with some delay on 21 August 1943 the command of Lieutenant Commander Konrad Loerke put into service are.

After the test and training runs, the Z 39 was initially used for a mining company in the Skagerrak in early 1944 and then moved via Gotenhafen to the Gulf of Finland . The destroyer then carried out several missions from Reval and Baltischport . On June 23, 1944, the Z 39 in the port of Baltischport was damaged by a Russian bomb attack and had to be repaired first in a Kiel shipyard and then in a Swinemünde shipyard.

The repairs were finished on February 16, 1945, but the Z 39 was only partially operational without training for the crew. After a magnetic survey in Copenhagen , exercises and training trips took place from Sassnitz . On April 1, 1945, the Z 39 was fully operational again.

At the beginning of April, the Z 39 , together with other units, was used to fire on land in the Bay of Danzig . After a successfully averted air attack, Z 39 moved to Swinoujscie and was attacked several times from the air. On May 2, 1945 there was again a bombardment of Russian tanks and troops. The next day, the Silesia was covered when it was deployed in the Greifswalder Bay and, after a mine hit, it was dragged to the roadstead of Swinoujscie. On May 4, 1945 there was another fire on land and then a port stay in Copenhagen. On May 7, 1945, Hela was called to take up troops and refugees. Two days later Kiel was reached and the crew were taken prisoner there on May 10, 1945.

post war period

On May 29, 1945 the technical staff was embarked again under British guard. The next day, Z 39 moved to Wilhelmshaven, from where it was transferred to the United States on July 6, 1945 . In August 1945 it was handed over to the United States Navy in Boston , which mainly used the destroyer as DD-939 for tests.

In 1947 the destroyer was handed over to the French Navy and served as a spare parts donor for the former German destroyers still in service until 1953. In 1964 the remains of the ship were scrapped .

literature

  • 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.

Web links

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