In Service: 8 June 1938 to 1961
Ordered:
Builder: Blohm
& Voss, Hamburg
Construction No: 504
Laid down: 30 March 1935
Launched: 24 September 1936
Commissioned: 8 June 1938
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1934A
Displacement: 2,239 tons standard 3,165 tons full load
Length: 120 m
Beam: 11.3 m
Draft: 4.23 m
Propulsion: 2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared
turbines
Power: 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:
Variants:
Other: Destroyers
Articles:
Downloads:
Film Clips: Kriegsmarine
Film Footage
8 June 1938
The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck is commissioned.
8 October 1939
The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck patrol the Atlantic along
with the battleship Gneisenau, and light cruiser Köln
and destroyers Friedrich Eckoldt, Friedrich Ihn, Diether von
Roeder, Theodor Riedel, Paul Jakobi, Bernd von Arnim, Max
Schulz and Wilhlem Heidkamp.
12 to 13 December 1939
The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck carries out mine laying operation
against Newcastle. Along with the destroyers, Richard Beitzen,
Bruno Heinemann, Friedirch Ihn and Hermann Künne. On
the way back meet up with light cruisers Nürnberg, Leipzig
and Köln. Nürnberg and Köln are both hit by
torpedoes from the British submarine HMS Salmon escort the
returning ships.
6 to 7 January 1940
The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck carries out mine laying operations
against the Thames estuary. Along with the destroyers Friedrich
Ihn, Friedrich Eckold, Richard Beitzen, Hermann Schoemann
and Karl Galster.
1945
The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck is seized as a prize of war
by the British.
1945
The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck is renamed R 92.
1945
The destroyer R 92 is handed over to the Russians as a prize
of war.
2 January 1946
The destroyer R 92 is renamed Pylkyy.
1961
The destroyer Pylkyy is broken up, and scrapped.
Rolf
Johannesson
Takes command on May 1938
Ends command on January 1942
Frhr.
Freytag von Loringhoven
Takes command on January 1942
Ends command on December 1942
Otto
Teichmann
Takes command on December 1942
Ends command on November 1944
Werner
Röver
Takes command on November 1944
Ends command on September 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
