In
Service: 15 September 1940 to 7 October 1951
Ordered: Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 957
Laid down: 15 November 1938
Launched: 15 December 1939
Commissioned: 15 September 1940
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1936A
"Narvik"
Displacement: 2,603 tons standard 3,605 tons full load
Length: 127 m
Beam: 12 m
Draft: 4.65 m
Propulsion:
2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared turbines producing up to 70,000 shp
Propellers: Speed: 37.5 knots
Range: 2,500 nautical
miles at 19 knots
Crew: 330 men and officers
Armament:
4 × 15 cm L/48 SK C/36
carried 600 rounds
5 × 15 cm L/48 SK
C/36 after 1944
carried 480 rounds
4 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried
8000 rounds
5 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 10000 to 14000 rounds
12 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 after 1942
carried 24000 to 32000 rounds
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
12 × torpedo's carried
60 mines
Armour Aircraft: Electronics: Operators:
Kriegsmarine
Variants: Other: Destroyers
Articles: 15 September 1940 The destroyer Z23 is commissioned.
21 August 1944 The destroyer Z23 is sunk by British RAF. Position
46° 10N 01° 12W.
1945 The destroyer Z23 is raised
by the British.
1945 The destroyer Z23 is renamed Leopard
by France.
7 October 1951 The destroyer Leopard is cannibalised
and broken up, and scrapped.
Friedrich
Böhme
Takes command on September 1940
Ends command on May 1942
Heinrich
Wittig
Takes command on May 1942
Ends command on March 1944
Helmut
von Mantey
Takes command on March 1944
Ends command on August 1944
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 
