In
Service: 6 December 1938 to 13 April 1940
Ordered: Builder: F.
Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel
Construction No: 537
Laid down:
26 April 1935
Launched: 8 July 1936
Commissioned: 6 December
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: 6 December 1938 The destroyer Bernd von Arnim is commissioned.
8 October 1939 The destroyer Bernd von Arnim 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,
Max Schulz, Erich Steinbrinck and Wilhlem Heidkamp.
8 April 1940
The destroyer Bernd von Arnim takes part in operation Weser�bung (Invasion
of Denmark and Norway) along with Anton Schmitt, Wilhlem Heidkamp, Diether von
Roeder, Erich Giese, Erich Koellner, Georg Thiele, Hans Lüdemann, Hermann
Künne and Wolfgang Zenker.
13 April 1940 The destroyer
Bernd von Arnim scuttled and sunk undamaged due to there being no ammuntion or
fuel. 1 crew lost. Position 68° 25N 17° 54E.
Kurt
Rechel
Takes command on December 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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