In
Service: 15 August 1927 to 15 June 1944
Ordered: Builder: Reichsmarinewerft,
Wilhelmshaven
Construction No: 107
Laid down: 17 November
1925
Launched: 22 September 1926
Commissioned: 15 August
1927
Type: Torpedo boat
Class: Raptor
Displacement:
924 tons standard 1,290 tons full load
Length: 88.5 m
Beam:
8.3 m
Draft: 3.65 m
Propulsion: 2 × shaft geared steam
turbines, 3 × boilers producing up to 24,829 shp
Propellers:
2
Speed: 33.6 knots
Range: 3,600 nautical miles at 17 knots
Crew: 129 men and officers
Armament: 3 × 10.5 cm L/45
Tbts C/32
carried 300 rounds
4 × 3.7 cm L/83 SK C/30
carried
8000 rounds
2 × 2 cm Flak L/65 C/39 before 1941
4 × 2 cm Flak
L/65 C/39 after 1941
carried 8000 rounds
6 × 50 cm torpedo tubes
before 1931
6 × 53.3 cm torpedo tubes after 1931
30 mines
Armour
Aircraft: Electronics: Operators: Kriegsmarine
Variants: Other: Torpedo
boats Articles: 15 August 1927 The torpedo boat Falke is commissioned.
23 May 1944 The torpedo boat Greif is attacked by aircraft and
then collids with the torpedo boat Falke while on tow and sinks.
15
June 1944 The torpedo boat Falke is sunk along with Möwe, Jaguar,
S-66, S-84 by the British RAF 26 crew lost. Position 49° 30N 00° 07E.
Hans
Hartmann
Takes command on August 1927
Ends command on September 1928
Werner
Ehrhardt
Takes command on September 1928
Ends command on February
1929
Hans-Armin
Czech
Takes command on February 1929
Ends command on June 1929
Fritz
Berger
Takes command on October 1929
Ends command on September 1930
Paul Ascher
Takes command on September 1930
Ends command on September 1932
Ernst-Ludwig
Thinemann
Takes command on September 1932
Ends command on September
1934
Alwin
Albrecht
Takes command on September 1934
Ends command on September
1936
Walter
Riede
Takes command on September 1936
Ends command on Jun 1938
Günter
Hessler
Takes command on March 1939
Ends command on March 1940
Jan
Heinrich Hansen-Nootbaar
Takes command on March 1940
Ends command
on December 1941
Karl
Hoffmann
Takes command on December 1941
Ends command on October 1942
Konrad
Loerke
Takes command on October 1942
Ends command on March 1943
Günter
Krüger
Takes command on September 1943
Ends command on June 1944
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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