In
Service: 17 September 1938 to 1949
Ordered: Builder: F.
Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel
Construction No: 536
Laid down:
1 April 1935
Launched: 14 May 1936
Commissioned: 17 September
1938
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1934A
Displacement: 2,270 tons standard 3,190 tons full load
Length:
120 m
Beam: 11.3 m
Draft: 4.23 m
Propulsion:
2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared turbines producing up to 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: Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants: Other:
Destroyers Articles: 17 September 1938 The destroyer Hans Lody is commissioned.
24 to 25 November 1940 The destroyer Hans Lody carries out operations
against Plymouth along with the destroyers Richard Beitzen, Karl Galster, they
engage several British patrol boats and sink two
28 to 29 November
1940 The destroyer Hans Lody carries out its second operation against
Plymouth along with the destroyers Richard Beitzen, Karl Galster, they engage
several British patrol boats and sink three.
1 to 2 July 1941
The destroyer Hans Lody is transferred to Bergen along with Richard Beitzen.
4 to 11 July 1941 The destroyer Hans Lody is transferred to Kirkenes
along with the rest of 6th destroyer flotilla Herman Schoemann, Friedrich Eckold,
Karl Galster, and Richard Beitzen.
12 to 16 July 1941 The
destroyer Hans Lody carries out operations along with the rest of 6th destroyer
flotilla Herman Schoemann, Friedrich Eckold, Karl Galster, and Richard Beitzen.
And sink two Russian patrol boats.
9 to 10 August 1941 The
destroyer Hans Lody carries out operations near Kola inlet. Along with Friedrich
Eckold, and Richard Beitzen. And sinks one Russian patrol boat SKR 12 Tuman Richard
Beitzen is damaged by coastal artillery.
1946 The destroyer
Hans Lody is seized as a prize of war by the British.
1946
The destroyer Hans Lody is renamed R38.
1949 The destroyer
R 38 is broken up, and scrapped.
Karl
von Puttkammer
Takes command on September 1938
Ends command on August
1939
Hubert
Freiherr von Wangenheim
Takes command on August 1939
Ends command
on October 1940
Werner
Pfeiffer
Takes command on November 1940
Ends command on August 1942
Karl
Adolf Zenker
Takes command on August 1942
Ends command on March 1943
Carl-Heinz
Vorsteher
Takes command on March 1943
Ends command on April 1943
Hans Marks
Takes command on April 1943
Ends command on November 1943
Kurt
Haun
Takes command on November 1943
Ends command on July 1944
Richard
von Bulla
Takes command on July 1944
Ends command on November 1944
Kurt
Haun
Takes command on November 1944
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
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