In
Service: 6 February 1943 to 1964
Ordered: Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 1003
Laid down: 22 December 1940
Launched: 15 September 1941
Commissioned: 6 February 1943
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1936A
(Mob)
Displacement: 2,657 tons standard 3,691 tons full load
Length: 127 m
Beam: 12 m
Draft: 4.62 m
Propulsion:
2 × shafts 2 × Wagner geared turbines producing up to 71,915 shp
Propellers: Speed: 36.1 knots
Range: 2,950 nautical
miles at 19 knots
Crew: 330 men and officers
Armament:
5 × 15 cm L/48 SK C/36
carried 600 rounds
5 × 15 cm L/48 SK
C/36 after 1945
4 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried 8000 rounds
10 × 2 cm MG L/65 C/30
carried 20000 rounds
16 × 2 cm MG L/65
C/30 after 1945
8 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes
12 × torpedo's carried
60 mines
Armour Aircraft: Electronics: Operators:
Kriegsmarine
Variants: Other: Destroyers
Articles: 6 February 1943 The destroyer Z33 is commissioned.
1945 The destroyer Z33 is seized as a prize of war by the Russians.
1946 The destroyer Z33 is renamed Provornyy.
1964
The Provornyy is broken up, and scrapped.
Erich
Holtorf
Takes command on February 1943
Ends command on June 1944
Rudolf
Menge
Takes command on June 1944
Ends command on March 1945
Heinrich
Peter-Pirkham
Takes command on March 1945
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
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