In
Service: 28 August 1939 to 13 April 1940
Ordered: Builder: F.
Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel
Construction No: 539
Laid down:
12 October 1935
Launched: 18 March 1937
Commissioned: 28
August 1939
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer
1934A
Displacement: 2,270 tons standard 3,190 tons full load
Length: 120 m
Beam: 11.3 m
Draft: 4.23 m
Propulsion:
2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared turbines producing up to 70,000 shp
Propellers: Speed: 38.7 knots
Range: 1,825 nautical
miles at 19 knots
Crew: 325 men and officers
Armament:
5 × 12.7 cm L/45 SK C/34
carried 600 rounds
4 × 3.7 cm L/83
SK C/30
carried 8000 rounds
6 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 12000
rounds
8 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 after mid 1942
carried 16000 rounds
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
8 torpedo's carried
4 × depth charge
launchers
60 mines
Armour Aircraft: Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants: Other:
Destroyers Articles: 28 August 1939 The destroyer Erich Koellner is commissioned.
22 February 1940
The destroyer Erich Koellner takes part in operation
Wikinger (German sortie into the North Sea) along with Leberecht Maa�, Friedrich
Eckold, Max Schulz, Richard Beitzen, and Theodor Riedel, They receive orders to
proceed against British shipping at Dogger Bank. On the way there a Luftwaffe
bomber attacks the destroyers, sinking the Lebercht Maas. During the rescue of
Lebercht Maas crew, Max Schulz hits a mine and is lost with all hands
8 April 1940 The destroyer Erich Koellner takes part in operation
Weser�bung (Invasion of Denmark and Norway) along with Anton Schmitt, Wilhlem
Heidkamp, Diether von Roeder, Erich Giese, Georg Thiele, Bernd von Arnim, Hans
Lüdemann, Hermann Künne and Wolfgang Zenker.
13 April 1940
The destroyer Erich Koellner is sunk by British destroyers. 31 crew lost. Position
68° 24N 16° 48E.
1963 The destroyer Erich Koellner
is raised.
1963 The destroyer Erich Koellner is broken up,
and scrapped.
Alfred
Schulze-Hinrichs
Takes command on August 1939
Ends command on April
1940
German
Warships, 1815-1945: Major Surface Vessels.
ISBN-10: 0851775330
German
Warships, 1815-1945: U-boats and Mine Warfare Vessels.
ISBN-10: 155750301X
German warships of the Second World War.
ISBN-10: 0668040378
For a complete list of
sources