In
Service: 8 June 1938 to 1961
Ordered: Builder: Blohm
& Voss, Hamburg
Construction No: 504
Laid down: 30 March
1935
Launched: 24 September 1936
Commissioned: 8 June 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: 8 June 1938 The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck is commissioned.
8 October 1939 The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck 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,
Bernd von Arnim, Max Schulz and Wilhlem Heidkamp.
12 to 13 December
1939 The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck carries out mine laying operation
against Newcastle. Along with the destroyers, Richard Beitzen, Bruno Heinemann,
Friedirch Ihn 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 Erich Steinbrinck carries out
mine laying operations against the Thames estuary. Along with the destroyers Friedrich
Ihn, Friedrich Eckold, Richard Beitzen, Hermann Schoemann and Karl Galster.
1945 The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck is seized as a prize of war
by the British.
1945 The destroyer Erich Steinbrinck is renamed
R 92.
1945 The destroyer R 92 is handed over to the Russians
as a prize of war.
2 January 1946 The destroyer R 92 is renamed
Pylkyy.
1961 The destroyer Pylkyy is broken up, and scrapped.
Rolf
Johannesson
Takes command on May 1938
Ends command on January 1942
Heinrich
Freiherr Freytag von Loringhoven
Takes command on January 1942
Ends
command on December 1942
Otto
Teichmann
Takes command on December 1942
Ends command on November
1944
Werner
Röver
Takes command on November 1944
Ends command on September
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 
