In Service: 27 February 1937 to 13 April 1940
Ordered:
Builder: Deutsche
Werke, 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
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
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 Weserübung
(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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