In
Service: 15 April 1929 to 26 July 1940
Ordered: Builder: Marinewerft
Construction
No: 111
Laid down: 2 April 1927
Launched: 15 March
1928
Commissioned: 15 April 1929
Type: Torpedo boat
Class: Predator
Displacement:
933 tons standard. 1,320 tons full load
Length: 92.6 m
Beam:
8.6 m
Draft: 3.52 m
Propulsion: 2 × shaft geared steam
turbines, 3 × boilers producing up to 25,500 shp
Propellers:
2
Speed: 35.2 knots
Range: 3,900 nautical miles at 17 knots
Crew: 129 men and officers
Armament: 3 × 12.7
cm L/45 SK C/34
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 April 1929 The torpedo boat Luchs is commissioned.
26 July 1940 The torpedo boat Luchs is sunk while escorting the
battleship Gneisenau by British submarine HMS Swordfish. 89 crew lost.
Schubert
Takes command on April 1929
Ends command on September 1929
Erich
Schulte Monting
Takes command on 27 September 1929
Ends command on
2 October 1931
Gottfried
Pönitz
Takes command on October 1931
Ends command on October
1932
Oels
Takes command on October 1933
Ends command on September 1935
Friedrich
Kothe
Takes command on September 1935
Ends command on December 1936
Hans
Marks
Takes command on December 1936
Ends command on September 1937
Heinrich
Wittig
Takes command on February 1938
Ends command on March 1938
Prölß
Takes command on March 1938
Ends command on October 1939
Kaßbaum
Takes command on October 1939
Ends command on July 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
For a complete list of
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