In
Service: 9 April 1938 to 1961
Ordered: Builder: Blohm
& Voss, Hamburg
Construction No: 503
Laid down: 30 March
1935
Launched: 5 November 1935
Commissioned: 9 April 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 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: 9 April 1938 The destroyer Friedrich Ihn is commissioned.
8 October 1939 The destroyer Friedrich Ihn patrol the Atlantic
along with the battleship Gneisenau, and light cruiser Köln and destroyers
Friedrich Eckoldt, Max Schulz, Diether von Roeder, Theodor Riedel, Paul Jakobi,
Bernd von Arnim, Erich Steinbrinck and Wilhlem Heidkamp.
12 to 13
December 1939 The destroyer Friedirch Ihn carries out mine laying operation
against Newcastle. Along with the destroyers, Erich Steinbrinck, Bruno Heinemann,
Richard Beitzen 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 Friedrich Ihn carries out mine
laying operations against the Thames estuary. Along with the destroyers Richard
Beitzen, Friedrich Eckold, Erich Steinbrinck, Hermann Schoemann and Karl Galster.
10 to 11 January 1940 The destroyer Friedrich Ihn carries out
mine laying operations against Newcastle. Along with the destroyers Anton Schmitt,
Karl Galster, Wilhlem Heidkamp, Richard Beitzen and Friedrich Eckold.
5 February 1946 The destroyer Friedrich Ihn is seized as a prize of
war by the Russians.
1946 The destroyer Friedrich Ihn is renamed
Pospesnyy.
1961 The destroyer Pospesnyy is broken up, and
scrapped.
Klaus
Trampedach
Takes command on April 1938
Ends command on October 1938
Erich
Bey
Takes command on October 1938
Ends command on April 1939
Rudolf
von Pufendorf
Takes command on April 1939
Ends command on November
1939
Günther
Wachsmuth
Takes command on October 1939
Ends command on November 1942
Gerhard
Fromme
Takes command on November 1942
Ends command on January 1944
Richter
Oldekop
Takes command on January 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
sources 
