In
Service: 2 July 1938 to 13 April 1940
Ordered: Builder: F.
Krupp Germaniawerft AG, Kiel
Construction No: 535
Laid down:
23 March 1935
Launched: 27 March 1936
Commissioned: 2 July
1938
Type: Destroyer
Class: Zerstörer
Displacement:
2,270 tons standard 3,190 tons full load
Length: 120 m
Beam:
11.3 m
Draft: 4.23 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 1938 The destroyer Wolfgang Zenker is commissioned.
3 September 1939 The destroyer Wolfgang Zenker and her sister
ship Leberecht Maa� engage Polish forces Gryf Polish minelayer, Wicher Polish
destroyer, Polish coastal batteries at Hela. Leberecht Maa� sustained one hit.
8 April 1940 The destroyer Wolfgang Zenker takes part in operation
Weser�bung (Invasion of Denmark and Norway) along with Anton Schmitt, Wilhlem
Heidkamp, Diether von Roeder, Erich Giese, Erich Koellner, Bernd von Arnim, Hans
Lüdemann, Hermann Künne and Georg Thiele.
13 April 1940
The destroyer Wolfgang Zenker is scuttled and sunk, undamaged due to there being
no ammuntion or fuel. Position 68° 25N 17° 55E.
Gottfried
Pönitz
Takes command on July 1938
Ends command on April 1940
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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