In Service: 11 January 1940 to 29 March 1942
Ordered:
Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 960
Laid down: 1 April 1939
Launched: 2 April 1940
Commissioned: 11 January 1940
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1936A "Narvik"
Displacement: 2,543 tons standard 3,543 tons full load
Length: 127 m
Beam: 12 m
Draft: 4.43 m
Propulsion: 2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared
turbines producing up to 70,000 shp
Propellers:
Speed: 36 knots
Range: 2,500 nautical miles at 19 knots
Crew: 330 men and officers
Armament:
4 × 15 cm L/48 SK C/36
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
12 × 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:
11 January 1940
The destroyer Z26 is commissioned.
29 March 1942
The destroyer Z26 is sunk by the British cruiser HMS Trinidad
and the destroyers HMS Fury and Eclipse. 243 crew lost. Position
72° 07N 32° 15E.
Ritter
und Edler Herr von Berger
Takes command on January 1941
Ends command on March 1942
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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