In Service: 21 March 1939 to 1961
Ordered:
Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 922
Laid down: 14 September 1937
Launched: 15 June 1938
Commissioned: 21 March 1939
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1936
Displacement: 2,411 tons standard 3,415 tons full load
Length: 125.1 m
Beam: 11.8 m
Draft: 4.50 m
Propulsion: 2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared
turbines
Power: 70,000 shp
Propellers:
Speed: 28.5 knots
Range: 2,050 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
9 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 later
carried 18000 rounds
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
8 torpedo's carried
60 mines
Armour
Aircraft:
Variants:
Other: Destroyers
Articles:
Downloads:
Film Clips: Kriegsmarine
Film Footage
21 March 1939
The destroyer Karl Galster is commissioned.
6 to 7 January 1940
The destroyer Karl Galster carries out mine laying operations
against the Thames estuary. Along with the destroyers Friedrich
Ihn, Friedrich Eckold, Erich Steinbrinck, Hermann Schoemann
and Richard Beitzen.
10 to 11 January 1940
The destroyer Karl Galster carries out mine laying operations
against Newcastle. Along with the destroyers Anton Schmitt,
Richard Beitzen, Wilhlem Heidkamp, Friedrich Ihn and Friedrich
Eckold.
24 to 25 November 1940
The destroyer Karl Galster carries out operations against
Plymouth along with the destroyers Hans Lody, Karl Galster,
they engage several British patrol boats and sink two
28 to 29 November 1940
The destroyer Karl Galster carries out its second operation
against Plymouth along with the destroyers Hans Lody, Richard
Beitzen, they engage several British patrol boats and sink
three.
4 to 11 July 1941
The destroyer Karl Galster is transferred to Kirkenes along
with the rest of 6th destroyer flotilla Herman Schoemann,
Friedrich Eckold, Richard Beitzen, and Hans Lody.
12 to 16 July 1941
The destroyer Karl Galster carries out operations along with
the rest of 6th destroyer flotilla Herman Schoemann, Friedrich
Eckold, Richard Beitzen, and Hans Lody. And sink two Russian
patrol boats.
22 to 24 July 1941
The destroyer Karl Galster carries out operations along with
the rest of 6th destroyer flotilla Herman Schoemann, Friedrich
Eckold, and Richard Beitzen. And sink one Russian patrol boat
and one floatplane.
1946
The destroyer Karl Galster is seized as a prize of war by
the Russians.
1946
The destroyer Karl Galster is renamed Procnyy.
1961
The destroyer Procnyy is broken up, and scrapped.
Theodor
Freiherr von Mauchenheim gennant Bechtolsheim
Takes command on March 1939
Ends command onAugust 194
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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