In
Service: 30 November 1940 to 1958
Ordered: Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 959
Laid down: 15 February 1939
Launched: 16 March 1940
Commissioned: 30 November 1940
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1936A
"Narvik"
Displacement: 2,543 tons standard 3,543 tons full load
Length: 127 m
Beam: 12 m
Draft: 4.43 m
Propulsion:
2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared turbines producing up to 70,000 shp
Propellers: Speed: 36 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
10 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30 after 1944
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
17 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 after
1944
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
12 × torpedo's carried
60 mines
Armour Aircraft: Electronics: Operators:
Kriegsmarine
Variants: Other: Destroyers
Articles: 30 November 1940 The destroyer Z25 is commissioned
2 May 1942 The destroyer Z25 attacked the British cruiser HMS
Edinburgh along with Herman Schoemann and Z24 whilst she was under tow to Kola
Fjord. During this action the destroyer Herman Schoemann was sunk. Position 73°
30N 35° 10E.
6 January 1946 The destroyer Z25 is seized
as a prize of war by the British.
1946 The destroyer Z25 is
transferred to France.
1946 The destroyer Z25 is renamed Hoche.
2 January 1958 The destroyer Hoche is renamed Q 102.
1958 The destroyer Q 102 is broken up, and scrapped.
Heinrich
Gerlach
Takes command on November 1940
Ends command on July 1941
Kurt
Haun
Takes command on July 1941
Ends command on September 1941
Heinz
Peters
Takes command on September 1941
Ends command on August 1943
Carl-Heinz
Birnbacher
Takes command on August 1943
Ends command on November 1943
Alfred
Gohrbrandt
Takes command on December 1943
Ends command on May 1945
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