In Service: 29 August 1938 to 13 April 1940
Ordered:
Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 919
Laid down: 9 September 1936
Launched: 19 August 1937
Commissioned: 29 August 1938
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1936
Displacement: 2,411 tons standard 3,415 tons full load
Length: 123.4 m
Beam: 11.8 m
Draft: 4.50 m
Propulsion: 2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared
turbines producing up to 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:
Electronics:
Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants:
Other: Destroyers
Articles:
29 August 1938
The destroyer Diether von Roeder is commissioned.
8 October 1939
The destroyer Diether von Roeder patrol the Atlantic along
with the battleship Gneisenau, and light cruiser Köln
and destroyers Friedrich Eckoldt, Friedrich Ihn, Max Schulz,
Theodor Riedel, Paul Jakobi, Bernd von Arnim, Erich Steinbrinck
and Wilhlem Heidkamp.
8 April 1940
The destroyer Diether von Roeder takes part in operation Weser�bung
(Invasion of Denmark and Norway) along with Anton Schmitt,
Wilhlem Heidkamp, Georg Thiele, Erich Giese, Erich Koellner,
Bernd von Arnim, Hans Lüdemann, Hermann Künne and
Wolfgang Zenker.
13 April 1940
The destroyer Diether von Roeder is sunk by British destroyers.
16 crew lost. Position 68° 25N 17° 34E.
Erich
Holtorf
Takes command on August 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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