In
Service: 26 October 1940 to 25 August 1944
Ordered: Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 958
Laid down: 2 January 1939
Launched: 7 March 1940
Commissioned: 26 October 1940
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1936A
"Narvik"
Displacement: 2,603 tons standard 3,605 tons full load
Length: 127 m
Beam: 12 m
Draft: 4.65 m
Propulsion:
2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared turbines producing up to 70,000 shp
Propellers: Speed: 37.5 knots
Range: 2,500 nautical
miles at 19 knots
Crew: 330 men and officers
Armament:
4 × 15 cm L/48 SK C/36
carried 600 rounds
5 × 15 cm L/48 SK
C/36 after 1944
carried 480 rounds
4 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried
8000 rounds
5 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 10000 to 14000 rounds
16 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30 after 1942
carried 24000 to 32000 rounds
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
12 × torpedo's carried
60 mines
Armour Aircraft: Electronics: Operators:
Kriegsmarine
Variants: Other: Destroyers
Articles: 26 October 1940 The destroyer Z24 is commissioned.
2 May 1942 The destroyer Z24 attacked the British cruiser HMS
Edinburgh along with Herman Schoemann and Z25 whilst she was under tow to Kola
Fjord. During this action the destroyer Herman Schoemann was sunk. Position 73°
30N 35° 10E.
25 August 1944 The destroyer Z24 is sunk
by the British RAF. Position 45° 31N 01° 06W.
1946
The destroyer Z24 is raised and broken up, and scrapped.
Martin
Salzwedel
Takes command on October 1940
Ends command on October 1943
Carl-Heinz
Birnbacher
Takes command on December 1943
Ends command on August 1944
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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