In
Service: 2 July 1937 to 1958
Ordered: Builder: Deschimag,
Bremen
Construction No: 900
Laid down: 18 July 1935
Launched: 22 April 1936
Commissioned: 2 July 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: 2 July 1937 The destroyer Theodor Riedel is commissioned.
8 October 1939 The destroyer Theodor Riedel patrol the Atlantic
along with the battleship Gneisenau, and light cruiser Köln and destroyers
Friedrich Eckoldt, Friedrich Ihn, Diether von Roeder, Max Schulz, Paul Jakobi,
Bernd von Arnim, Erich Steinbrinck and Wilhlem Heidkamp.
9 to 10 February
1940 The destroyer Theodor Riedel carries out mine laying operations along
with the destroyers Hermann Schoemann, Wilhlem Heidkamp Richard Beitzen, Max Schulz
and Friedrich Eckold.
22 February 1940
The destroyer Theodor
Riedel takes part in operation Wikinger (German sortie into the North Sea) along
with Erich Koellner, Friedrich Eckold, Max Schulz, Richard Beitzen, and Leberecht
Maa�, They receive orders to proceed against British shipping at Dogger Bank.
On the way there a Luftwaffe bomber attacks the destroyers, sinking the Lebercht
Maas. During the rescue of Lebercht Maas crew, Max Schulz hits a mine and is lost
with all hands.
28 January 1946 The destroyer Theodor Riedel
is seized as a prize of war by the British.
1946 The destroyer
Theodor Riedel is handed over to France as a prize of war.
1946
The destroyer Theodor Riedel is renamed Kleber.
1957 The destroyer
Kleber is renamed Q 86.
1958 The destroyer Q 86 is broken
up, and scrapped.
Max
Fechner
Takes command on July 1937
Ends command on October 1938
Gerhardt
Böhmig
Takes command on October 1938
Ends command on November
1940
Walter
Riede
Takes command on April 1941
Ends command on September 1943
Lothar
Freiherr von Hausen
Takes command on September 1943
Ends command on
January 1944
Rudolf
Menge
Takes command on January 1944
Ends command on June 1944
Hans
Blöse
Takes command on June 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 
