In
Service: 27 February 1937 to 13 April 1940
Ordered: Builder: Deutsche
Werke AG, Kiel
Construction No: 243
Laid down: 25 October
1934
Launched: 18 August 1935
Commissioned: 27 February
1937
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1934
Displacement: 2,223 tons standard 3,156 tons full load
Length:
119.3 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: 27 February 1937 The destroyer Georg Thiele is commissioned.
1 September 1939 The destroyer Georg Thiele carries out operations
in the Danzig Beight along with Köln, Leipzig, and Nürnberg.
8 April 1940 The destroyer Georg Thiele takes part in operation Weser�bung
(Invasion of Denmark and Norway) along with Anton Schmitt, Wilhlem Heidkamp, Diether
von Roeder, Erich Giese, Erich Koellner, Bernd von Arnim, Hans Lüdemann,
Hermann Künne and Wolfgang Zenker.
13 April 1940 The
destroyer Georg Thiele is is sunk by the British destroyers HMS Eskimo, HMS Hero
and HMS Kimberley at Rombaksbotten. 27 crew lost. Position 68° 24N 17°
35E.
Hans
Hartmann
Takes command on February 1937
Ends command on August 1938
Rudolf
von Pufendorf
Takes command on August 1938
Ends command on October
1938
Max-Eckart
Wolff
Takes command on October 1938
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
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