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Z2 Georg Thiele

Destroyer




Z2 Georg Thiele Destroyer

Service Data

In Service: 27 February 1937 to 13 April 1940

Production Data

Ordered:
Builder: Deutsche Werke AG, Kiel
Construction No: 243
Laid down: 25 October 1934
Launched: 18 August 1935
Commissioned: 27 February 1937

Technical Data

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
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Career

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.

Commanders

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

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Sources

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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