In
Service: 29 June 1937 to 1958
Ordered: Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 899
Laid down: 15 July 1935
Launched: 24 March 1936
Commissioned: 29 June 1937
Type: Destroyer / Zerstörer
Class: Zerstörer 1934A
Displacement: 2,171 tons standard 3,110 tons full load
Length:
120 m
Beam: 11.3 m
Draft: 4.28 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: 29 June 1937 The destroyer Paul Jakobi is commissioned.
8 October 1939 The destroyer Paul Jakobi patrol the Atlantic
along with the battleship Gneisenau, and light cruiser Köln and destroyers
Friedrich Eckoldt, Friedrich Ihn, Diether von Roeder, Theodor Riedel, Max Schulz,
Bernd von Arnim, Erich Steinbrinck and Wilhlem Heidkamp.
14 to 17
January 1942 The destroyer Paul Jakobi escorts battleship Tirpitz to the
Trondheimfjord. Along with Richard Beitzen, Bruno Heinemann and Z29.
18 to 20 January 1942 The destroyer Paul Jakobi returns to Germany
along with Bruno Heinemann, Richard Beitzen and Z29.
24 to 26 January
1942 The destroyer Paul Jakobi is transferred to Le Havre along with Herman
Schoemann, Richard Beitzen and Bruno Heinemann. During the journey Bruno Heinemann
is struck by two mines and is lost.
27 to 28 January 1942
The destroyer Paul Jacobi is transferred to Brest along with Richard Beitzen.
15 January 1946 The destroyer Paul Jacobi is seized as a prize
of war by the British.
1946 The destroyer Paul Jacobi is handed
over to France as a prize of war.
1946 The destroyer Paul
Jacobi is renamed Desaix.
1954 The destroyer Desaix is renamed
Q 02.
1958 The destroyer Q 02 is broken up, and scrapped.
Rudolf
Peters
Takes command on June 1937
Ends command on November 1938
Hans-Georg
Zimmer
Takes command on November 1938
Ends command on February 1941
Hermann
Schlieper
Takes command on April 1941
Ends command on July 1944
Max Bülter
Takes command on July 1944
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
sources 
